Walter Noll

Walter Noll ( born January 7, 1925 in Berlin ) is a German-born American applied mathematician, who dealt in particular with the fundamentals of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics.

Noll studied from 1946 Mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin but also heard lectures at the University of Berlin and the Humboldt University, and 1949/50, at the University of Paris. In 1951, he earned a degree in engineering in mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin, where he was a research assistant. In 1953 he went to Indiana University to Clifford Truesdell, where he became in 1954 a PhD in Applied Mathematics. Then he returned to Berlin, but in 1955 went back to the U.S. at the University of Southern California and in 1956 as an Associate Professor at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, which later became Carnegie Mellon University. In 1957 his collaboration began with Truesdell to the non -linear field theories of mechanics, which appeared in 1965 as part of the manual of physics. He became a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and emeritus in 1993.

He has been a visiting professor and visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University ( in Truesdell ), the University of Karlsruhe, the Israel Institute of Technology, École Polytechnique in Nancy, the University of Pisa, Pavia University and the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

  • With Clifford Truesdell The Non - Linear Field Theories of Mechanics, Springer- Verlag 2004 ( first in 1965 in the series Siegfried Flügge (Editor) Encyclopedia of Physics, Vol III / 3)
  • BD Coleman, H. Markovitz Visco Metric Flows of Non- Newtonian fluid, Theory and experiment. Springer -Verlag, 1966
  • Foundations of Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Selected Papers, Springer- Verlag, 1974
  • Finite -Dimensional Spaces: Algebra, Geometry, and Analysis, Volume 1, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1987
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