Are Rate Independent System new in the world of mathematics? I can't tell because I certainly am new to mathematics. I couldn't find any more resources than this book: Rate-Independent Systems: Theory and Application. Googling only shows some excerpts by the same author
Please give me some books ( maybe something lighter) on this topic or something similar on this topic as I am having difficulty understanding the subject from the current text due to my prior lack of involvement with rigorous math texts
The kind of problems — Excerpt from the book:
