Originally published in 1927, this is a classic account of the mathematical theory of elasticity by English mathematician A. E. H. Love. The text provides a det

TO THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. In preparing this translation, I have taken the liberty of including footnotes in the main text or inserting them in small type at

It is not my intention to present a treatise of elasticity in the follow ing pages. The size of the volume would not permit it, and, on the other hand, there ar

The scientists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, led by Jas. Bernoulli and Euler, created a coherent theory of the mechanics of strings and rods unde

This volume contains 16 classic essays from the 17th to the 21st centuries on aspects of elastic wave theory.