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Paul Nemenyi and Clifford Truesdell, "Axially Symmetric Membranes", original typescript/carbon, 13 leaves, produced at the School of mathematical Mechanics, Brown University, and dated August, 1942. Two-hole punch bound in a manila folder with metal brace. There are a number of penciled notes and corrections, though I cannot say in whose hand these were made. Signed "Professor Reissner, with the authors' compliments". Very Good condition. Provenance: Hans J. Reissner. Typescript/carbon of a leaf work by Paul Nemenyi and Clifford Truesdell, undertaken while Truesdell attended the School of Mathematical Mechanics at Brown University in August 1942. Nemenyi (1895-1952) was a math prodigy with a Ph.D. from Berlin in 1927, and was one of the "Martians" of outer-orbitally fantastic mathematicians and physicists who came to the U.S. fleeing Nazism (this group including von Karman, de Hevesy, Szilard, Wigner,Teller, Erdos, and of course von Neumann). He is also recognized as being the father of Bobby Fischer.+++ Clifford Truesdell (III, 1919-2000)was a very significant figure in the history of modern math, who in 1942 went to Brown from CalTech (where he obtained a B.S. in math and another in physics) before heading off to finish his Ph.D. (Solomon Lefschetz) at Princeton in 1943, finishing a long and varied career as emeritus prof at Hopkins. Truesdell and Nemenyi evidently knew one another well, collaborating on several projects, including The fundamental principles of analytic fluid dynamics, which seems to have abandoned. +++ The paper was sent to Prof Hans J. Reissner (as stated by the authors on the first page of the work). Reissner (1874-1967) was a leading German pioneer in aeronautics and aeronautical engineering and mathematical physics. He was appointed to the chair vacated by Arnold Sommerfeld at the Technische Hochschul at Aachen, where he established the aerodynamics laboratory and designed the great experimental wind tunnel there where he was the second director (after T. von Karman). He went on to the University of Berlin where he remained until 1938, leaving Germany for the United States. Reissner held a chair at the Illinois Institute of Technology and in 1944 joined the faculty at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Van Karman spoke very highly of Reissner and attributed his work in aerodynamics to be as important as those advances made by Prandtl (see von Karman s Wind and Beyond). I haven't determined in what capacity Reissner filled though he too was at Brown in 1942 (and published two books there in that year, "Graphical Statics" and the "Theory of Propellers").
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