Geometrical methods of mathematical physics /
In recent years the methods of modern differential geometry have become of considerable importance in theoretical physics and have found application in relativity and cosmology, high-energy physics and field theory, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics and mechanics. This textbook provides an introduction...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Libro |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, [Eng.] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
c1980.
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Acceso en línea: | Publisher description Table of contents |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface 1. Some basic mathematics
- 2. Differentiable manifolds and tensors
- 3. Lie derivatives and Lie groups
- 4. Differential forms
- 5. Applications in physics
- 6. Connections for Riemannian manifolds and gauge theories
- Appendix
- Notation
- Index.