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Topology, Geometry and Gauge fields Foundations /

This is a book on topology and geometry, and like any book on subjects as vast as these, it has a point of view that guided the selection of topics. The author's point of view is that the rekindled interest that mathematics and physics have shown in each other of late should be fostered, and th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Naber, Gregory L. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:2nd ed. 2011.
Colección:Texts in Applied Mathematics, 25
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a Contents: Preface -- Physical and geometrical motivation 1 Topological spaces -- Homotopy groups -- Principal bundles -- Differentiable manifolds and matrix Lie groups -- Gauge fields and Instantons. Appendix. References. Index. 
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