would like to thank all those people in the life of Walter Noll I who helped me to write this book: Chancellor ofIndiana Univer sity Professor Herman B. Wells, Dr. Klaus Andre, Professor Bemard D. Coleman, Stella DeVito, Dr. Peter Frankel, Professor Morton E. Gurtin, Studiendirektor i.R. Rudolf Hohensee, Faye Mark, Profes sor Victor J. Mizel, Professor Dietrich Morgenstern, Professor Ralph Raimi, Professor Juan J. Schaffer, Professor Clifford A. Truesdell III, Professor Epifanio G. Virga, Dr. Paul Winkler and many oth ers. I will be always indebted to Inge Lind, my teacher and friend, for a...