Functional Differential Geometry - Hardcover

Sussman, Gerald Jay; Wisdom, Jack

 
9780262019347: Functional Differential Geometry
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0262019345 ISBN 13: 9780262019347
Verlag: The MIT Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

An explanation of the mathematics needed as a foundation for a deep understanding of general relativity or quantum field theory.

Physics is naturally expressed in mathematical language. Students new to the subject must simultaneously learn an idiomatic mathematical language and the content that is expressed in that language. It is as if they were asked to read Les Misérables while struggling with French grammar. This book offers an innovative way to learn the differential geometry needed as a foundation for a deep understanding of general relativity or quantum field theory as taught at the college level.

The approach taken by the authors (and used in their classes at MIT for many years) differs from the conventional one in several ways, including an emphasis on the development of the covariant derivative and an avoidance of the use of traditional index notation for tensors in favor of a semantically richer language of vector fields and differential forms. But the biggest single difference is the authors' integration of computer programming into their explanations. By programming a computer to interpret a formula, the student soon learns whether or not a formula is correct. Students are led to improve their program, and as a result improve their understanding.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gerald Jay Sussman is Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT.

Jack Wisdom is Professor of Planetary Science at MIT.

Will Farr is a CIERA Fellow at Northwestern University.

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Verlag
The MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0262019345
ISBN 13 
9780262019347
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
248
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