Stuart Sheldon Antman is an American mathematician. He is Distinguished University Research Professor at the

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retrieved 2014-12-20. His research involves continuum mechanics, elasticity, and

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s. Antman did his undergraduate studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, graduating in 1961. He earned a Ph.D. in 1965 from the

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, under the supervision of William H. Warner. He joined the

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faculty in 1967, and moved to Maryland in 1972. He became Distinguished University Professor at Maryland in 2001, and Distinguished University Research Professor in 2014. Antman became a

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of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009, and a fellow of the

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in 2012. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1978, and with John M. Ball he won the Theodore von Kármán Prize in 1999. In 1987 Antman won a

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. and in 2015 the Lyapunov Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Antman is the author of the book ''Nonlinear Problems of Elasticity'' (Springer, 1995; 2nd ed., 2005).Review of ''Nonlinear problems of elasticity'' by Massimo Lanza de Cristoforis (1996), . Updated for 2nd edition, same reviewer (2006), .

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