List of interesting and useful books [edit]

Continuum mechanics using Mathematica: fundamentals, applications and scientific computing / Antonio Romano, Renato Lancellotta, Addolorata Marasco
Complex analysis with Mathematica / William T. Shaw
Why size matters: from bacteria to blue whales / John Tyler Bonner
Handbook of elasticity solutions / Mark Kachanov, Boris Shafiro, and Igor Tsukr
Tissue mechanics / Stephan C. Cowin, and Stephen B. Doty
Dislocation based fracture mechanics / Johannes Weertman
Introduction to statistics for biomedical engineers / Kristina M. Ropella
The clockwork universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the birth of the modern world / Edward Dolnick
Physics of continuous matter: exotic and everyday phenomena in the macroscopic world / B. Lautrup
Partial differential equations in mechanics / A.P.S Selvadurai
Microcontinuum field theories / A. Cemal Eringen
Biomineralization: principles and concepts in bioinorganic materials chemistry / Stephen Mann
Real mathematical analysis / Charles Chapman Pugh
The linearized theory of elasticity / William S. Slaughter
Bones: structure and mechanics / John D. Currey
Comparative biomechanics: life’s physical world / Steven Vogel
Optimization mechanics in nature: /editors, M.W Collins, G.D Hunt, and M. A. Atherton
The art of scientific investigation
Introduction to continuum mechanics for engineers / Ray M. Bowen
Biomechanics materials: a practical approach / edited by Julian F.V Vincent
Advanced strength and applied elasticity / A.C Ugural, S.K. Fenster
Ever since Darwin: reflections in natural history / Stephen Jay Gould
Methods of mathematical physics / R. Courant and D.Hilbert
Quasicrystals and geometry / Marjorie Senechal
Writing mathematics well: a manual for authors / Leonard Gillman
Biomimetics: design and processing of materials / editors, Mehmet Sarikaya, Ilhan Aksay
Nonlinear differential equations and dynamical systems / Ferdinand Verhulst
Undergraduate analysis / Serge Lang
Sponges / Patricia R. Bergquist
Nonlinear continuum mechanics for finite element analysis / Javier Bonet, Richard D. Wood
Design in nature: learning from trees / Claus Mattheck
Introduction to composite materials design / Ever J. Barbero
Microcontinuum field theories / A. Cemal Eringen
On growth and form / D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Structural biological materials: design and structure-property relationships
Cellular solids / lorna Gibson
Numerical optimization / Nocedal
Applied analysis / John Hunter
Variational calculus with Elementary convexity / John Troutman
COMMAS Recommended Literature
Mathematical theory of Elasticity / I.S Sokolnikoff, R.D Specht
Mechanical design in organisms / S.A. Wainwright
Problems and methods of optimal structural design / N.V Banichuk, translated by Vadim Komkov
The cell biology of sponges / Tracy L. Simpson
Fourier series and boundary value problems / Ruel V. Churchill, James Ward Brown
An introduction to inequalities / Edwin Beckenbach, Richard Bellman
Introduction to convergence / S.C Malik
An introduction to the theory of elasticity / R.J Atkin, N. Fox
Mathematical analysis: a straightforward approach / K.G Binmore
Elasticity in engineering mechanics / Arthur P. Boresi, Ken P. Chong
Continuum mechanics / A.J.M Spencer
Optimality principles in biology
Metric spaces: iteration and application / Victor Bryant
Stress waves in solids / H. Kolsky
Dimensional analysis and theory of models
Similarity and dimensional methods in mechanics / translated by Morris Friedman, edited by Maurice Holt
Stability and nonlinear solid mechanics / Quoc Son Nguyen
Advanced mathematics and mechanics applications using MATLAB / Howard B. Wilson, Louis H. Turcotte
Interpolation and approximation / Philip J. Davis
A first course in real analysis / Murray H. Protter, Charles B. Morrey Jr
Damage mechanics / Dusan Krajcinovic
Fracture of brittle solids / Brian Lawn
A course on damage mechanics / Jean Lemaitre, foreword by H. Lippmann
Cracks and fracture / K. Bertram Broberg