Categories in Continuum Physics

Lectures Given at a Workshop Held at SUNY, Buffalo 1982

132 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Continuum mechanics and geometric integration theory.- Structure of continuum physics.- On differentiable spaces.- Cartesian closed categories and analysis of smooth maps.- to synthetic differential geometry, and a synthetic theory of dislocations.- Synthetic reasoning and variable sets.- Recent research on the foundations of thermodynamics.- Global and local versions of the second law of thermodynamics.- Thermodynamics and the hahn-banach theorem.- What is the length of a potato?.

• Reihe: Lecture Notes in Mathematics
• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Physik Mathematische / Computergestützte / Theoretische Physik
• ISBN: 9783540160960
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.1986
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: Stephen H. Schanuel, F. William Lawvere