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Unlike mathematicians who live happily in the realm of their intellectual creations and must never bring their symbols in contact with the rough outside world, the engineer identifies mathematical symbols with physical objects.
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Hartmann, F. (1985). Introduction. In: The Mathematical Foundation of Structural Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82401-2_1
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