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At the beginning of the twentieth century, at a time when classical mechanics had long been considered to be complete, two scientists appeared on the scene: Karl Heun and Georg Hamel. We owe them the further development of analytical mechanics, especially in the new field of nonholonomic systems (Hamel’s equations, nowadays mostly referred to as Hamel-Boltzmann-equations). The impact of their research in the twentieth century and up to now is the focus of the present contribution.

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Bremer, H. (2014). Heun and Hamel – Representatives of Mechanics around 1900. In: Stein, E. (eds) The History of Theoretical, Material and Computational Mechanics - Mathematics Meets Mechanics and Engineering. Lecture Notes in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39905-3_5

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