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In contemporary American public culture, the legacy of the consumer revolution of the 1960s is unmistakable. Today, there are few things more beloved of our masses than the figure of the cultural rebel, the defiant individualist resisting the mandates of the machine civilization. Whether he is an athlete decked out in a mowhawk and multiple-pierced ears, a policeman who plays by his own rules, an actor on a motorcycle, a soldier of fortune with explosive bow and arrow, or a rock star in leather jacket and sunglasses, the rebel has become the paramount cliché of our popular entertainment, and the pre-eminent symbol of the system he is supposed to be subverting. In advertising especially, he rules supreme

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About Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III

Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III

Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III

Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III, (February 18, 1919 - January 14, 2000) was an American mathematician, natural philosopher, historian of mathematics, and polemicist.

Truesdell was born in America, Los Angeles. From 1961 until his retirement in 1989 he was professor of rational mechanics at John Hopkins University in Baltimore . He was the advisor of Walter Noll who contributed decisevely to foundational rational mechanics. The aim of rational mechanics is to construct a full mathematic model for treating (continuous) mechanical phenomena . Truesdell founded (in 1957), and was editor-in-chief of, the journals Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis and Archive for the History of Exact Sciences, which were unusual in several ways. Following Truesdell's criticisms of awkward style in scientific writing (to be found on "A Comment on Scientific Writing" see ref. 1), the journal accepted papers in English, French, German, or Latin.

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