Books by Clifford Truesdell
“At university, my interests turned sharply towards applied mathematics, and, in particular, fluid mechanics. And it was while doing research in that subject that I eventually came across this immensely scholarly book by Clifford Truesdell, which immediately got me interested in the history of maths, and the notion of returning – where possible – to original sources.” Read more...
David Acheson, Mathematician
Interviews where books by Clifford Truesdell were recommended
Favourite Maths Books, especially Geometry, recommended by David Acheson
From Thales’s theorem to the Banach-Tarski paradox, Oxford mathematician David Acheson’s book, The Wonder Book of Geometry, is a lively attempt to bring to life geometry—literally, ‘earth measurement’—and make it accessible to the general public. Here, David recommends some of the books that influenced him, “in the order in which I met them, over a timespan of some 60 years.”
