Challenges For The 21st Century, Procs Of The Intl Conf On Fundamental Sciences: Mathematics And Theoretical Physics
Will be published approx. on 9. May 2001
Book
Hardback
528 pages
978-981-02-4646-4 (ISBN)
Description
The International Conference on Fundamental Sciences: Mathematics and Theoretical Physics provided a forum for reviewing some of the significant developments in mathematics and theoretical physics in the 20th century; for the leading theorists in these fields to expound and discuss their views on new ideas and trends in the basic sciences as the new millennium approached; for increasing public awareness of the importance of basic research in mathematics and theoretical physics; and for promoting a high level of interest in mathematics and theoretical physics among school students and teachers. This was a major conference, with invited lectures by some of the leading experts in various fields of mathematics and theoretical physics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-981-02-4646-4 (9789810246464)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Part 1 Mathematics: a review of critical point theory, K.-C. Chang; data tuning, P. Hall; applied mathematics meets signal processing, S. Mallat; chromatic graph theory, C. Thomassen; three-dimensional subgroups and unitary representations, D.A. Vogan, Jr. Part 2 Theoretical physics: the future of particle physics, J.D. Bjorken; the mathematics of M-theory, R. Dijkgraaf; aspects of anomalies in field theory, K. Fujikawa; general relativity and quantum mechanics, J.B. Hartle; perturbative quantum field theory, G. Sterman. (Part contents).