Everything from basics of exterior calculus to applied exterior calculus, including classical and irreversible thermodynamics, electrodynamics, and modern theory of gauge fields. "Essential." - SciTech Book News. 1985 edition.
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Höhe: 233 mm
Breite: 163 mm
Dicke: 27 mm
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978-0-486-43871-9 (9780486438719)
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Dominic G. B. Edelen (1933-2010) was Professor of Applied Mathematics at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.
Part One. Vectors and Forms
1. Mathematical Preliminaries
2. Vector Fields
3. Exterior Forms
4. Exterior Derivatives, Lie Derivatives, and Integration
5. Antiexact Differential Forms and Homotopy Operators
Part Two. Applications to Mathematics
6. Isovector Methods for Second-Order Partial Differential Equations
7. Calculus of Variations
Part Three. Applications to Physics
8. Modern Thermodynamics
9. Electrodynamics with Electric and Magnetic Charges
10. Gauge Theories
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