Categories in Continuum Physics

Lectures Given at a Workshop Held at SUNY, Buffalo 1982

F. William Lawvere, Stephen H. Schanuel (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

IV, 126 Seiten

1986
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-16096-0 (ISBN)

Inhalt

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?.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.1986
• Reihe/Serie: Lecture Notes in Mathematics
• Zusatzinfo: IV, 126 p.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 155 x 235 mm
• Gewicht: 195 g
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geometrie / Topologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
• Schlagworte: Differential Geometry • Geometry • law of thermodynamics • Mechanics • thermodynamics
• ISBN-10: 3-540-16096-5 / 3540160965
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-16096-0 / 9783540160960
• Zustand: Neuware