The Riemann Legacy: Riemannian Ideas in Mathematics and Physics: 417 (Mathematics and Its Applications) - Hardcover

Maurin, Krzysztof

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 079234636X ISBN 13: 9780792346364

Verlag: Springer, 1997

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very small domain (environment) affects through analytic continuation the whole of Riemann surface, or analytic manifold . Riemann was a master at applying this principle and also the first who noticed and emphasized that a meromorphic function is determined by its ’singularities’. Therefore he is rightly regarded as the father of the huge ’theory of singularities’ which is developing so quickly and whose importance (also for physics) can hardly be overe~timated. Amazing and mysterious for our cognition is the role of Euclidean space. Even today many philosophers believe (following Kant) that ’real space’ is Euclidean and other spaces being ’abstract constructs of mathematicians, should not be called spaces’. The thesis is no longer tenable - the whole of physics testifies to that. Nevertheless, there is a grain of truth in the 3 ’prejudice’: E (three-dimensional Euclidean space) is special in a particular way pleasantly familiar to us - in it we (also we mathematicians!) feel particularly ’confident’ and move with a sense of greater ’safety’ than in non-Euclidean spaces. For this reason perhaps, Riemann space M stands out among the multitude of ’interesting geometries’. For it is: 1. Locally Euclidean, i. e. , M is a differentiable manifold whose tangent spaces TxM are equipped with Euclidean metric Uxi 2. Every submanifold M of Euclidean space E is equipped with Riemann natural metric (inherited from the metric of E) and it is well known how often such submanifolds are used in mechanics (e. g. , the spherical pendulum).

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Reseña del editor

The study of the rise and fall of great mathematical ideas is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating branches of the history of science. It enables one to come into contact with and to participate in the world of ideas. Nowhere can we see more concretely the enormous spiritual energy which, initially still lacking clear contours, begs to be moulded and developed by mathematicians, than in Riemann (1826-1866). He perceived mathematics and physics as one discipline and thought of himself as both mathematician and physicist. His ideas as well as their contemporary descendants are the theme of this book.
Audience: This volume will be useful to those interested in such diverse fields as the mathematics of physics, algebra and number theory, topology and geometry, analysis, and the history of science.

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• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 079234636X
• ISBN 13: 9780792346364
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 748
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