Excerpt from The Kinematics of Cutting Solid Objects: Technical Report 541, January 1991 To go beyond this restriction would require a theory of small distortions; that is, bending. Such a theory will, of course, ultimately be necessary, but appears to be difficult. It is hard to characterize bending and its limits without using the language of partial differential equations, which is unintuitive and does not (at least easily) support qualitative reasoning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.