Principles of Advanced Mathematical Physics
Author: R.D. Richtmyer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 3642510760
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Mathematical Physics
Author: Sadri Hassani
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2002-02-08
Total Pages: 1052
ISBN-13: 9780387985794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor physics students interested in the mathematics they use, and for math students interested in seeing how some of the ideas of their discipline find realization in an applied setting. The presentation strikes a balance between formalism and application, between abstract and concrete. The interconnections among the various topics are clarified both by the use of vector spaces as a central unifying theme, recurring throughout the book, and by putting ideas into their historical context. Enough of the essential formalism is included to make the presentation self-contained.
Principles of Advanced Mathematical Physics
Author: Robert D. Richtmyer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 3642463789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA first consequence of this difference in texture concerns the attitude we must take toward some (or perhaps most) investigations in "applied mathe matics," at least when the mathematics is applied to physics. Namely, those investigations have to be regarded as pure mathematics and evaluated as such. For example, some of my mathematical colleagues have worked in recent years on the Hartree-Fock approximate method for determining the structures of many-electron atoms and ions. When the method was intro duced, nearly fifty years ago, physicists did the best they could to justify it, using variational principles, intuition, and other techniques within the texture of physical reasoning. By now the method has long since become part of the established structure of physics. The mathematical theorems that can be proved now (mostly for two- and three-electron systems, hence of limited interest for physics), have to be regarded as mathematics. If they are good mathematics (and I believe they are), that is justification enough. If they are not, there is no basis for saying that the work is being done to help the physicists. In that sense, applied mathematics plays no role in today's physics. In today's division of labor, the task of the mathematician is to create mathematics, in whatever area, without being much concerned about how the mathematics is used; that should be decided in the future and by physics.
Mathematical Physics
Author: Donald H. Menzel
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-05-23
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0486139107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUseful treatment of classical mechanics, electromagnetic theory, and relativity includes explanations of function theory, vectors, matrices, dyadics, tensors, partial differential equations, other advanced mathematical techniques. Nearly 200 problems with answers.
Physics for Mathematicians
Author: Michael Spivak
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 733
ISBN-13: 9780914098324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics
Author: Frederick W. Byron
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-04-26
Total Pages: 674
ISBN-13: 0486135063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGraduate-level text offers unified treatment of mathematics applicable to many branches of physics. Theory of vector spaces, analytic function theory, theory of integral equations, group theory, and more. Many problems. Bibliography.
Methods of Mathematical Physics
Author: Richard Courant
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 830
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Author: Don Koks
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-09-15
Total Pages: 549
ISBN-13: 0387309438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHave you ever wondered why the language of modern physics centres on geometry? Or how quantum operators and Dirac brackets work? What a convolution really is? What tensors are all about? Or what field theory and lagrangians are, and why gravity is described as curvature? This book takes you on a tour of the main ideas forming the language of modern mathematical physics. Here you will meet novel approaches to concepts such as determinants and geometry, wave function evolution, statistics, signal processing, and three-dimensional rotations. You will see how the accelerated frames of special relativity tell us about gravity. On the journey, you will discover how tensor notation relates to vector calculus, how differential geometry is built on intuitive concepts, and how variational calculus leads to field theory. You will meet quantum measurement theory, along with Green functions and the art of complex integration, and finally general relativity and cosmology. The book takes a fresh approach to tensor analysis built solely on the metric and vectors, with no need for one-forms. This gives a much more geometrical and intuitive insight into vector and tensor calculus, together with general relativity, than do traditional, more abstract methods. Don Koks is a physicist at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation in Adelaide, Australia. His doctorate in quantum cosmology was obtained from the Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics at Adelaide University. Prior work at the University of Auckland specialised in applied accelerator physics, along with pure and applied mathematics.
Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics
Author: V.I. Arnol'd
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-04-09
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 1475720637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constructs the mathematical apparatus of classical mechanics from the beginning, examining basic problems in dynamics like the theory of oscillations and the Hamiltonian formalism. The author emphasizes geometrical considerations and includes phase spaces and flows, vector fields, and Lie groups. Discussion includes qualitative methods of the theory of dynamical systems and of asymptotic methods like averaging and adiabatic invariance.
Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers I
Author: Carl M. Bender
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-09
Total Pages: 605
ISBN-13: 1475730691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA clear, practical and self-contained presentation of the methods of asymptotics and perturbation theory for obtaining approximate analytical solutions to differential and difference equations. Aimed at teaching the most useful insights in approaching new problems, the text avoids special methods and tricks that only work for particular problems. Intended for graduates and advanced undergraduates, it assumes only a limited familiarity with differential equations and complex variables. The presentation begins with a review of differential and difference equations, then develops local asymptotic methods for such equations, and explains perturbation and summation theory before concluding with an exposition of global asymptotic methods. Emphasizing applications, the discussion stresses care rather than rigor and relies on many well-chosen examples to teach readers how an applied mathematician tackles problems. There are 190 computer-generated plots and tables comparing approximate and exact solutions, over 600 problems of varying levels of difficulty, and an appendix summarizing the properties of special functions.
