When a 13-year old Marie-Sophie Germain was stuck in the house because of the chaotic revolution on the streets of Paris in 1789, she found a refuge for her active mind: her father’s mathematics books ...

There is a concept used in calculus and economics called “elasticity.” This idea measures the percent change in one variable as another variable experiences a one percent change. This is often used to ...

MR. LOVE'S treatise is the necessary complement to Todhunter and Pearson's “History of the Theory of Elasticity,” in which an abstract is given of all the most important original memoirs bearing on ...

THE appearance of a treatise in English upon the mathematical theory of elasticity is an event the potential importance of which may be judged by the that the author, in his frequent suggestions for ...