Mathematical Physics category: 1075 books
Szegő's Theorem and Its Descendants
Spectral Theory for L2 Perturbations of Orthogonal Polynomials
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the sum rule approach to spectral analysis of orthogonal polynomials, which derives from Gábor Szego's classic 1915 theorem and its 1920 extension. Barry Simon emphasizes necessary and sufficient conditions, and provides mathematical background that...
by Isaac Newton
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
The book has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter of the following titles:
1) THE CHRONOLOGY OF ANCIENT KINGDOMS AMENDE – ISAAC NEWTON 2) LIFE OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON - N. W. CHITTENDEN
Although the key contribution of Newton to the modern science and engineering...
by Brian Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
An Award-Winning Essayist Plies His Craft
Brian Hayes is one of the most accomplished essayists active today—a claim supported not only by his prolific and continuing high-quality output but also by such honors as the National Magazine Award for his commemorative Y2K essay titled "Clock...
Bridging Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering and Technology
Contributions from the Fall 2011 Seminar on Mathematical Sciences and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
This volume contains the invited contributions from talks delivered in the Fall 2011 series of the Seminar on Mathematical Sciences and Applications 2011 at Virginia State University. Contributors to this volume, who are leading...
by Alexander Komech
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
The focus of the present work is nonrelativistic and relativistic quantum mechanics with standard applications to the hydrogen atom. The author has aimed at presenting quantum mechanics in a comprehensive yet accessible for mathematicians and other non-physicists. The genesis of quantum mechanics,...
Doing Physics with Scientific Notebook
A Problem Solving Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
The goal of this book is to teach undergraduate students how to use Scientific Notebook (SNB) to solve physics problems. SNB software combines word processing and mathematics in standard notation with the power of symbolic computation. As its name implies, SNB can be used as a notebook in which students...
Theoretical Concepts in Physics
An Alternative View of Theoretical Reasoning in Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
A highly original, and truly novel, approach to theoretical reasoning in physics. This book illuminates the subject from the perspective of real physics as practised by research scientists. It is intended to be a supplement to the final years of an undergraduate course in physics and assumes that...
Formality Theory
From Poisson Structures to Deformation Quantization
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
This book is a survey of the theory of formal deformation quantization of Poisson manifolds, in the formalism developed by Kontsevich. It is intended as an educational introduction for mathematical physicists who are dealing with the subject for the first time. The main topics covered are the theory...
The Cyclic Universe
A Conversation with Sir Roger Penrose
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
In the last twenty years, cosmology has unexpectedly emerged as one of the most exciting and dynamic fields of modern science. From astoundingly precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background to the ongoing mysteries of dark energy and dark matter, modern cosmology is unquestionably in the...
by Daisuke Fujiwara
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2017
This book proves that Feynman's original definition of the path integral actually converges to the fundamental solution of the Schrödinger equation at least in the short term if the potential is differentiable sufficiently many times and its derivatives of order equal to or higher than two are bounded....
by D. Cioranescu, V. Girault, K.R. Rajagopal
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This text is the first of its kind to bring together both the thermomechanics and mathematical analysis of Reiner-Rivlin fluids and fluids of grades 2 and 3 in a single book. Each part of the book can be considered as being self-contained. The first part of the book is devoted to a description of...
Basic Concepts in Physics
From the Cosmos to Quarks
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
"Basic Concepts in Physics: From the Cosmos to Quarks" is the outcome of the authors' long and varied teaching experience in different countries and for different audiences, and gives an accessible and eminently readable introduction to all the main ideas of modern physics. The book’s...
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
The Abel Symposium 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
The topic of the 2010 Abel Symposium, hosted at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo, was Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, the study of which is of fundamental importance in mathematics and in almost all of natural sciences, economics, and engineering.
This area of mathematics...
Twenty-First Century Quantum Mechanics: Hilbert Space to Quantum Computers
Mathematical Methods and Conceptual Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
This book is designed to make accessible to nonspecialists the still evolving concepts of quantum mechanics and the terminology in which these are expressed. The opening chapters summarize elementary concepts of twentieth century quantum mechanics and describe the mathematical methods employed in...