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Benenti, Sergio |
Mathematical Foundations and Numerical Analysis of the Dynamics of an Isotropic Universe |
I13109 |
2024 |
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Bountis, Tassos |
Chaos, Fractals and Complexity |
I12832 |
2023 |
eBook |
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Deshko, Yury |
Special Relativity |
I12503 |
2022 |
Book |
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Finn, Kieran |
Geometric Approaches to Quantum Field Theory |
I11853 |
2021 |
eBook |
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Dierck-Ekkehard Liebscher |
Geometry of time |
OB1822 |
2005 |
eBook |
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Dribus, Benjamin F |
Discrete Causal Theory |
I10462 |
2017 |
eBook |
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Graf-Grossmann, Claudia |
Marcel Grossmann |
I09808 |
2018 |
eBook |
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Landi, Giovanni |
Linear Algebra and Analytic Geometry for Physical Sciences |
I09687 |
2018 |
eBook |
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| 9 |
Osterhage, Wolfgang |
Johannes Kepler |
I08807 |
2020 |
eBook |
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Lionni, Luca |
Colored Discrete Spaces |
I08748 |
2018 |
eBook |
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| Title | Mathematical Foundations and Numerical Analysis of the Dynamics of an Isotropic Universe |
| Author(s) | Benenti, Sergio |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. |
| Description | XXI, 143 p. 63 illus., 56 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book is an enhanced and expanded English edition of the treatise ???Fondamenti matematici e analisi numerica della dinamica di un Universo isotropo,??? published by the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino in volume no. 42-43, 2018-2019. The book summarizes some of the principal ???ndings from a long-term cosmology research project, aiming to clarify signi???cant results through clear mathematical postulates. Despite efforts, a single mathematical model accurately describing the universe???s evolution remains elusive due to early universe complexity and numerous observational parameters. Over the past century, various models have been proposed and discarded, illustrated by debates on the cosmological constant and spatial curvature assumptions. Currently, many models lack clear foundations, causing confusion in the ???eld. Standard cosmological approaches rely on principles like Weyl???s principle, homogeneity, and isotropy, but may overlook discerning purely geometrical properties from those dependent on ???eld equations. This book aims to bring order to cosmology by starting from understandable mathematical postulates, leading to theorems. Disagreements on postulates can prompt adjustments or alternative approaches. Physics often consists of deductive theories lacking explicit delineation of underlying concepts and postulates, a criticism relevant to cosmological theories. Despite a late 1990s consensus on the Lambda cold dark matter model, the absence of a logical-deductive structure in literature complicates understanding, leading some to humorously dub it the ???expanding Universe and expanding confusion.??? |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031640339 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. COSMOLOGY
2. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. GEOMETRY
6. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
7. NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
8. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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| Title | Chaos, Fractals and Complexity |
| Author(s) | Bountis, Tassos;Vallianatos, Filippos;Provata, Astero;Kugiumtzis, Dimitris;Kominis, Yannis |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2023. |
| Description | XXV, 374 p. 102 illus., 85 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This volume of proceedings contains research results within the framework of the fields of Chaos, Fractals and Complexity, written by experienced professors, young researchers, and applied scientists. It includes reviews of the fields, which are presented in an educational way for the widest possible audience, analytical results, computer simulations and experimental evidence, focusing on mathematical modelling. The papers presented here are selected from lectures given at the 28th Summer School ???Dynamical Systems and Complexity???, July 18 ??? 27, 2022. Topics cover applications of complex systems in Neuroscience, Biology, Photonics, Seismology, Meteorology, and more broadly Physical and Engineering systems. The summer school has a long history, which began at the University of Patras in 1987 and continues with great success to this day. The original main purpose was to introduce young students and researchers of Greece to a new science that emerged several decades ago and continues to grow internationally at an ever increasing rate around the world |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031374043 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Applied Dynamical Systems
2. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
3. Computational neuroscience
4. DYNAMICS
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. GEOMETRY
7. NONLINEAR THEORIES
8. SYSTEM THEORY
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| Title | Special Relativity : For Inquiring Minds |
| Author(s) | Deshko, Yury |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2022. |
| Description | XIV, 348 p. 177 illus., 137 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This textbook introduces the special theory of relativity at a level which is accessible to undergraduate students and even high school students with a strong foundation in algebra. The presentation emphasizes clean algebraic and geometrical methods, visualized with plenty of illustrations, resulting in a textbook that is modern and serious yet accessible. Replete with many solved exercises and copious spacetime diagrams, this book will help students develop relativistic intuition when encountering the subject for the first time. The emphasis on geometric methods, combined with the pedagogically appealing k-calculus approach, makes this book ideal for a self-contained course on special relativity or as supplementary reading for modern physics courses. It will also appeal to high schoolers with a strong math background who want to get ahead |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030911423 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. GEOMETRY
4. GRAVITATION
5. GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS
6. SPECIAL RELATIVITY
7. Special relativity (Physics)
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| Title | Geometric Approaches to Quantum Field Theory |
| Author(s) | Finn, Kieran |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2021. |
| Description | XIX, 202 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The ancient Greeks believed that everything in the Universe should be describable in terms of geometry. This thesis takes several steps towards realising this goal by introducing geometric descriptions of systems such as quantum gravity, fermionic particles and the origins of the Universe itself. The author extends the applicability of previous work by Vilkovisky, DeWitt and others to include theories with spin ?? and spin 2 degrees of freedom. In addition, he introduces a geometric description of the potential term in a quantum field theory through a process known as the Eisenhart lift. Finally, the methods are applied to the theory of inflation, where they show how geometry can help answer a long-standing question about the initial conditions of the Universe. This publication is aimed at graduate and advanced undergraduate students and provides a pedagogical introduction to the exciting topic of field space covariance and the complete geometrization of quantum field theory |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030852696 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravity
2. COSMOLOGY
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. Elementary particles (Physics)
6. Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
7. GEOMETRY
8. GRAVITATION
9. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
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| Title | Discrete Causal Theory : Emergent Spacetime and the Causal Metric Hypothesis |
| Author(s) | Dribus, Benjamin F |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | XXX, 558 p. 154 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book evaluates and suggests potentially critical improvements to causal set theory, one of the best-motivated approaches to the outstanding problems of fundamental physics. Spacetime structure is of central importance to physics beyond general relativity and the standard model. The causal metric hypothesis treats causal relations as the basis of this structure. The book develops the consequences of this hypothesis under the assumption of a fundamental scale, with smooth spacetime geometry viewed as emergent. This approach resembles causal set theory, but differs in important ways; for example, the relative viewpoint, emphasizing relations between pairs of events, and relationships between pairs of histories, is central. The book culminates in a dynamical law for quantum spacetime, derived via generalized path summation |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319500836 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. COSMOLOGY
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. GEOMETRY
6. GRAVITATION
7. TOPOLOGY
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| I10462 |
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| Title | Marcel Grossmann : For the Love of Mathematics |
| Author(s) | Graf-Grossmann, Claudia |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2018. |
| Description | XVIII, 263 p. 91 illus., 1 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Zurich, summer 1912. Albert Einstein has just returned from Prague to the city on the Limmat. He sends a plea for help to his former fellow student, the mathematician Marcel Grossmann (1878-1936), for he is in need of assistance with the mathematical calculations of his general theory of relativity. What then follows is one of the most fascinating chapters of science history, with far-reaching consequences for the lives of the two friends. Marcel Grossmann???s granddaughter paints here a picture of a fiery and many-talented scientist and patriot. She traces the influence of an entrepreneurial family during Germany???s rapid industrial expansion in the late 19th century. The family???s fluctuating fortunes take the story to the vibrant city of Budapest on the Danube; they enable readers to sense the pioneering spirit at Zurich???s young Polytechnic Institute (now ETH Zurich) ??? but also reflect the worries and hardships of the First World War and interwar years. The Foreword is written by Prof. Remo Ruffini, founder and president of the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics and the Marcel Grossmann Meetings. Last but not least, an extensive contribution by Dr. Tilman Sauer offers a scientific-historical appreciation of Marcel Grossmann???s enduring contributions |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319900773 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. Europe, Central???History
5. GEOMETRY
6. GRAVITATION
7. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
8. History of Germany and Central Europe
9. MATHEMATICS
10. PHYSICS
11. Popular Science in Mathematics
12. Popular Science in Physics
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| Title | Linear Algebra and Analytic Geometry for Physical Sciences |
| Author(s) | Landi, Giovanni;Zampini, Alessandro |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2018. |
| Description | XII, 345 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | A self-contained introduction to finite dimensional vector spaces, matrices, systems of linear equations, spectral analysis on euclidean and hermitian spaces, affine euclidean geometry, quadratic forms and conic sections. The mathematical formalism is motivated and introduced by problems from physics, notably mechanics (including celestial) and electro-magnetism, with more than two hundreds examples and solved exercises. Topics include: The group of orthogonal transformations on euclidean spaces, in particular rotations, with Euler angles and angular velocity. The rigid body with its inertia matrix. The unitary group. Lie algebras and exponential map. The Dirac???s bra-ket formalism. Spectral theory for self-adjoint endomorphisms on euclidean and hermitian spaces. The Minkowski spacetime from special relativity and the Maxwell equations. Conic sections with the use of eccentricity and Keplerian motions. An appendix collects basic algebraic notions like group, ring and field; and complex numbers and integers modulo a prime number. The book will be useful to students taking a physics or engineer degree for a basic education as well as for students who wish to be competent in the subject and who may want to pursue a post-graduate qualification |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319783611 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ALGEBRA
2. APPLIED MATHEMATICS
3. Computer science???Mathematics
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
7. GEOMETRY
8. Linear and Multilinear Algebras, Matrix Theory
9. Math Applications in Computer Science
10. Mathematical and Computational Engineering
11. Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences
12. Mathematical Methods in Physics
13. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
14. MATRIX THEORY
15. PHYSICS
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| Title | Johannes Kepler : The Order of Things |
| Author(s) | Osterhage, Wolfgang |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2020. |
| Description | IX, 132 p. 24 illus., 10 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book traces the development of Kepler???s ideas along with his unsteady wanderings in a world dominated by religious turmoil. Johannes Kepler, like Galileo, was a supporter of the Copernican heliocentric world model. From an early stage, his principal objective was to discover ???the world behind the world???, i.e. to identify the underlying order and the secrets that make the world function as it does: the hidden world harmony. Kepler was driven both by his religious belief and Greek mysticism, which he found in ancient mathematics. His urge to find a construct encompassing the harmony of every possible aspect of the world ??? including astronomy, geometry and music ??? is seen as a manifestation of a deep human desire to bring order to the apparent chaos surrounding our existence. This desire continues to this day as we search for a theory that will finally unify and harmonise the forces of nature |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030468583 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
3. ASTROPHYSICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. GEOMETRY
7. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
8. PHYSICS
9. Popular Science in Astronomy
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| Title | Colored Discrete Spaces : Higher Dimensional Combinatorial Maps and Quantum Gravity |
| Author(s) | Lionni, Luca |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2018. |
| Description | XVIII, 218 p. 107 illus., 98 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book provides a number of combinatorial tools that allow a systematic study of very general discrete spaces involved in the context of discrete quantum gravity. In any dimension D, we can discretize Euclidean gravity in the absence of matter over random discrete spaces obtained by gluing families of polytopes together in all possible ways. These spaces are then classified according to their curvature. In D=2, it results in a theory of random discrete spheres, which converge in the continuum limit towards the Brownian sphere, a random fractal space interpreted as a quantum random space-time. In this limit, the continuous Liouville theory of D=2 quantum gravity is recovered. Previous results in higher dimension regarded triangulations, converging towards a continuum random tree, or gluings of simple building blocks of small sizes, for which multi-trace matrix model results are recovered in any even dimension. In this book, the author develops a bijection with stacked two-dimensional discrete surfaces for the most general colored building blocks, and details how it can be used to classify colored discrete spaces according to their curvature. The way in which this combinatorial problem arrises in discrete quantum gravity and random tensor models is discussed in detail |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319960234 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GEOMETRY
5. GRAVITATION
6. Mathematical Methods in Physics
7. PHYSICS
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