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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...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Schutz, Bernard F.
Format: Livre
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1980.
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Table of contents
Table des matières:
  • 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.