Mathematical World of Walter Noll

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 Fränkel, 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. Schäffer, 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 careful reading ofthe manuscript and her invaluable comments. This book would never have been written without the compas sion and assistance of many people in Bochum and Marburg. I am especially grateful to Ursula Arras, Dieter and Karola Behm, Achim Bühl, Birgit Berger, Professor Klaus Böhmer, Ute Hagen, Irene Jo raszik, Professor Hans-Heinrich Körle, Elke and Manfred Kuhne, Jutta Küster, Johannes Lind, Inka Lins, Annemarie Matt, Astrid Milenz, Matthias Näher, Eckart Rösch, Manfred Schönsee, Profes sor Werner von Seelen, Christa Seip, Heike Willig, Anita Wolf and many others.