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The Freudenstein equation, appearing for the first time in the doctoral dissertation of Ferdinand Freudenstein in 1954, is widely acknowledged to be a turning point in modern analytical kinematics. Professor Freudenstein (1926–2006) during his long career at Columbia University, together with his students, made outstanding research contributions in almost all areas of kinematics and mechanisms, and his direct and indirect influence can be readily seen in teaching, research and industrial practice in the area of mechanisms and machines. In this article the life and work of Ferdinand Freudenstein is revisited.
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Bernard Roth, Ferdinand Freudenstein (1926–2006), in Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science: Their Contributions and Legacies, Marco Ceccarelli (Editor), Springer, 2007.
Arthur G Erdman (Editor), Modern Kinematics: Developments in the Last Forty Years, John Wiley & Sons, 1993.
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Bernard Roth did his graduate work at Columbia University, where he was Professor Freudenstein’s second PhD graduate. He has had a long career as a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Currently he is the Academic Director of the Hasso Plattner Institue of Design at Stanford, which is commonly known as ‘the d.school’.
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Roth, B. Ferdinand Freudenstein. Reson 15, 690–698 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-010-0078-5
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