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Introduction to symmetry analysis /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cantwell, Brian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Colección:Cambridge texts in applied mathematics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Historical Preface
  • Rise of the Academies
  • Abel and Galois
  • Lie and Klein
  • 1870
  • Lie's Arrest
  • Gauss, Riemann, and the New Geometry
  • The Erlangen Program
  • Lie's Career at Leipzig
  • A Falling Out
  • Lie's Final Return to Norway
  • After 1900
  • The Ariadne Thread
  • Symmetry in Nature
  • Some Background
  • The Discrete Symmetries of Objects
  • The Principle of Covariance
  • Continuous Symmetries of Functions and Differential Equations
  • Some Notation Conventions
  • Dimensional Analysis
  • The Two-Body Problem in a Gravitational Field
  • The Drag on a Sphere
  • The Drag on a Sphere in High-Speed Gas Flow
  • Buckingham's Pi Theorem--The Dimensional-Analysis Algorithm
  • Systems of ODEs and First-Order PDEs; State-Space Analysis
  • Autonomous Systems of ODEs in the Plane
  • Characteristics
  • First-Order Ordinary Differential Equations
  • Thermodynamics; The Legendre Transformation
  • Incompressible Flow in Two Dimensions
  • Fluid Flow in Three Dimensions--The Dual Stream Function
  • Nonlinear First-Order PDEs--The Method of Lagrange and Charpit
  • Characteristics in n Dimensions
  • State-Space Analysis in Two and Three Dimensions
  • Classical Dynamics
  • Hamilton's Principle
  • Hamilton's Equations
  • The Hamilton--Jacobi Equation
  • Introduction to One-Parameter Lie Groups
  • The Symmetry of Functions
  • An Example and a Counterexample
  • One-Parameter Lie Groups
  • Invariant Functions
  • Infinitesimal Form of a Lie Group.