
Categories, Bundles and Spacetime Topology
C.T. Dodson(Author)
Kluwer Academic Publishers
2nd Edition
Published on 31. July 1988
Book
Hardback
XVII, 243 pages
978-90-277-2771-8 (ISBN)
Description
Approach your problems from the right end It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is and begin with the answers. Then one day, that they can't see the problem. perhaps you will find the final question. G. K. Chesterton. The Scandal of Father 'The Hermit Gad in Crane Feathers' in R. Brown'The point of a Pin'. van Gulik's TheChinese Maze Murders. Growing specialization and diversification have brought a host of monographs and textbooks on increasingly specialized topics. However, the "tree" of knowledge of mathematics and related fields does not grow only by putting forth new branches. It also happens, quite often in fact, that branches which were thought to be completely disparate are suddenly seen to be related. Further, the kind and level of sophistication of mathematics applied in various sciences has changed drastically in recent years: measure theory is used (non-trivially) in regional and theoretical economics; algebraic geometry interacts with physics; the Minkowsky lemma, coding theory and the structure of water meet one another in packing and covering theory; quantum fields, crystal defects and mathematical programming profit from homotopy theory; Lie algebras are relevant to filtering; and prediction and electrical engineering can use Stein spaces. And in addition to this there are such new emerging SUbdisciplines as "experimental mathematics", "CFD", "completely integrable systems", "chaos, synergetics and large-scale order", which are almost impossible to fit into the existing classification schemes. They draw upon widely different sections of mathematics.
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Series
Edition
Second Edition 1988
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Publishing group
Springer
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Enlarged edition
Revised edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
XVII, 243 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
565 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-277-2771-8 (9789027727718)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-015-7776-2
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Content
I. Preliminaries.- II. Naive Category Theory.- III. Existence of Limiting Topologies.- IV. Manifolds and Bundles.- V. Spacetime Structure.- Supplementary Bibliography.