Michael J Cloud

Applied Mathematician / Author

cloudmichaelj@gmail.com

Books

I am coauthor of books exploring mathematical structures revealed through continuum physics. The topics span functional analysis, tensor analysis and differential geometry, the calculus of variations, continuum field theories, and mathematical inequalities.

I belong to a tradition that approaches physical theories not merely as applications of mathematics but as rich sources of mathematical ideas.

I think of myself as a mathematical humanist. My writing has moved naturally across disciplinary boundaries. Rather than staking out an area, I sought a center and a voice.

Selected titles

Approximating Perfection: A Mathematician's Journey Into the World of Mechanics — with L.P. Lebedev, Princeton University Press, 2004

Functional Analysis in Mechanics — with L.P. Lebedev and I.I. Vorovich, Springer, 2012

Applications of Tensor Analysis in Continuum Mechanics — with L.P. Lebedev and V.A. Eremeyev, World Scientific, 2018

Introduction to Mathematical Elasticity — with L.P. Lebedev, World Scientific, 2009

Introduction to Interval Analysis — with R.E. Moore and R.B. Kearfott, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2009

Fundamentals of Multivariable Calculus — with L.P. Lebedev, World Scientific, 2025

Latest writing

On admissible external loadings within the first and second strain gradient elasticity (with V.A. Eremeyev and L.P. Lebedev), Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, Vol 31 Issue 2, Feb 2026, pp 217–231

The idea of convergence in mechanics (with L.P. Lebedev and V.A. Eremeyev), Lobachevskii Journal of Mathematics, 2025, Vol 46, No 6, pp 2873–2884

On Ladyzhenskaya's inequality and its applications (with V.A. Eremeyev and L.P. Lebedev), in Advances in Solid and Fracture Mechanics — A Liber Amicorum to Celebrate the Birthday of Nikita Morozov, Springer, 2022

Links

My pages on Google Scholar Citations, zbMATH, and MathSciNet. My old page was here.