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For an orientation-preserving deformation gradient $F$, oriented area transforms by its cofactor matrix: $(Fa)\times (Fb)=(\det F)F^{-T}(a\times b)$. Taking the dot product with $Fc$ proves this from the determinant identity for the scalar triple product. Applying it to tangent vectors of a surface proves Nanson's formula. Equating current and reference tractions then gives the material-first nominal stress tensor $P=J{F}^{-1}\sigma$ for symmetric Cauchy stress tensor $\sigma$.

Let $F$ be an invertible, orientation-preserving deformation gradient, with $J=\det F>0$. To prove Nanson's formula, take two reference surface tangent vectors $a,b$. Their current images are $Fa,Fb$, and their oriented area vectors are proportional to $a\times b$ and $(Fa)\times (Fb)$. For every vector $c$, the scalar triple product givesThus $F^T[(Fa)\times (Fb)]=J(a\times b)$, andThis proof also identifies the area transformation as the cofactor of $F$, rather than a transformation by $F$ itself.

Use the paper's material-index-first nominal stress tensor $P_{Ii}$. Equality of force on the same material surface in its two configurations gives $P_{Ii}d{S}_{0I}={\sigma }_{ji}d{S}_j$. Substitute the area transformation to obtainHere $\tau$ is the Kirchhoff stress tensor. With symmetric Cauchy stress tensor, the matrix forms are $P=J{F}^{-1}\sigma$ and $\tau =FP$. This $P$ is the transpose of the first Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensor; keeping the index convention prevents a spurious transpose later.

For the velocity gradient $L=\dot{F}{F}^{-1}$, let $D=(L+L^T)/2$ be the rate-of-strain tensor. Then the reference-volume mechanical power isThe last step uses stress symmetry, as supplied by angular-momentum balance in an ordinary continuum without couple stresses: a symmetric tensor has zero contraction with the skew part of $L$.

By work-conjugate stress and strain, a pair $(T,E)$ must satisfy $T:\dot{E}=\tau :D$ for every deformation rate, with both sides measured per reference volume. For the Green-Lagrange strain tensor, set $C=F^{T}F$ and calculateCyclically rearranging the contraction shows $T^{(2)}:{\dot{E}}^{(2)}=(F{T}^{(2)}{F}^T):D$. Hence the symmetric conjugate isthe second Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensor.

The inverse right Cauchy-Green strain is $E^{(-2)}=(I-C^{-1})/2$, because $C^{-1}=F^{-1}{F}^{-T}$. Differentiating $C{C}^{-1}=I$ givesConsequently $T^{(-2)}:{\dot{E}}^{(-2)}=(F^{-T}{T}^{(-2)}{F}^{-1}):D$, andThe two stress measures have a geometric interpretation in the convected coordinate net. Its basis vectors are $g_I=F{e}_I$ and its reciprocal basis is $g^I=F^{-T}{e}_I$. The entries of $T^{(2)}$ are the contravariant components in $\tau =T_{IJ}^{(2)}{g}_I\otimes g_J$, whereas $T_{IJ}^{(-2)}=g_I\cdot \tau g_J$ are the covariant components, equivalently $\tau =T_{IJ}^{(-2)}{g}^I\otimes g^J$. They describe the same spatial Kirchhoff stress tensor in a deforming, generally nonorthonormal coordinate net.