What type of studyn does Morton Gurtin and Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis have in common?
Morton Gurtin Morton E. Gurtin is a mechanical engineer who became a mathematician and "de facto" mathematical physicist. He is an emeritus professor of mathematical sciences at Carnegie-Mellon University, where for many years he held an endowed chair as the Alumni Professor of Mathematical Science. His main work is in materials science, in the form of the mathematical, rational mechanics of non-linear continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, in the style of Clifford Truesdell and Walter Noll, a field also known under the combined name of "continuum thermomechanics". He has published over 250 papers, many among them in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, as well as a number of books.
Jeffrey S. Morton Jeffrey Scott Morton is a professor of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University and a fellow at the Foreign Policy Association.* A native of North Carolina, he was born on March 13, 1964 and earned a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, an M.A. from Rutgers University and Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 1995. In 1986 he completed the International Law Commission Summer training program at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Jeffrey Morton has written three books and several journal articles, book chapters and editorials.