What is Walter Noll?
[[File:Walter Noll.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Noll in 2010]] '''Walter Noll''' (January 7, 1925 &ndash; June 6, 2017) was a German-born [[Americans|American]] mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at [[Carnegie Mellon University]]. He was best known for developing mathematical tools of [[classical mechanics]] and [[thermodynamics]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Ignatieff, Y. |title = The Mathematical World of Walter Noll |url=https://archive.org/details/mathematicalworl0000igna |publisher = Springer-Verlag |year = 1996 |isbn = 3-540-59440-X }}</ref> He was born in [[Berlin]], [[Germany]]. Noll has served as a visiting professor at the [[Johns Hopkins University]], the [[University of Karlsruhe]], the [[Technion – Israel Institute of Technology|Israel Institute of Technology]], the [[École Polytechnique]] in Nancy, the [[University of Pisa]], the [[University of Pavia]], and the [[University of Oxford]]. In 2012 he became a fellow of the [[American Mathematical Society]].<ref>[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2013-02-24.</ref> Noll died in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] on June 6, 2017, aged 92. ==Books== *Noll, Walter and [[Clifford Truesdell|Truesdell, Clifford]] (1965) ''The Non-Linear Field Theories of Mechanics''. Springer-Verlag, New York. {{ISBN|3-540-02779-3}}. *Noll, Walter; Coleman, B. D.; and Markovitz, H. (1966) ''Viscometric Flows of Non-Newtonian Fluids, Theory and Experiment''. Springer-Verlag, New York. [[ASIN]] B0006BN90G. *Noll, Walter (1974) ''Foundations of Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Selected Papers''. Springer-Verlag, New York. {{ISBN|0-387-06646-2}}. *Noll, Walter (1987) ''Finite-Dimensional Spaces: Algebra, Geometry, and Analysis, Vol. I''. Kluwer Academic Publishers. {{ISBN|90-247-3581-5}}. A corrected version (2006) is published on Professor Noll's website. *Noll, Walter (2004) ''Five Contributions to Natural Philosophy''. Published on Professor Noll's website ==References== {{reflist}} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSO