Almost a year ago, I wrote about Academic Press' acclaimed International Geophysics book series, which published a total of 104 volumes, the last one in 2014. Though many volumes remain in print, it is unclear if any new volumes are anticipated.
Today I'd like to pay tribute to another Academic Press book series, Mathematics in Science and Engineering. Academic Press is now part of Elsevier, and the latter's website shows that this series, apparently launched in 1961, is still going strong, with the latest volume published earlier this year. Volume 1 was titled Concepts from Tensor Analysis and Differential Geometry, by Tracy Y. Thomas. Sixty years later, the series published Luigi Berselli's Three-Dimensional Navier-Stokes Equations for Turbulence. The website seems to suggest that the last numbered volume was #213, published in 2010, and at least 7 volumes have been published since then. The longevity of a 60-year old series is truly impressive.
Scanning the list of titles and authors, there are indeed some impressive contributions. Remarkably, I only own one of these volumes, Morton Gurtin's An Introduction to Continuum Mechanics (1981), volume 158 of the series.
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