Foundations of Mathematics and Physics One Century After Hilbert New Perspectives /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Kouneiher, Joseph (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Mathematical physics.; Physics.; Mathematics.; History.; Mathematical Physics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

This book explores the rich and deep interplay between mathematics and physics one century after David Hilbert's works from 1891 to 1933, published by Springer in six volumes. The most prominent scientists in various domains of these disciplines contribute to this volume providing insight to th...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface : Where we stand today, Joseph Kouneiher
• Mie's Electromagnetic Theory of Matter and the Background to Hilbert's Unified Foundations of Physics, Leo Corry
• Hilbert and Einstein, Joseph Kouneiher, John Stachel
• Grothendieck on foundations for the rebirth of geometry, Colin MacLarty
• Understanding the 6-Dimensional Sphere, Michael Aityah
• A dozen problems, questions and conjectures about positive scalar curvature, Misha Gromov
• Geometry and the Quantum, Alain Connes
• What Every Physicist Should Know About String Theory, Edward Witten
• Quanta of Space-Time and Axiomatization of Physics, Ali Chamsddine
• Twistor Theory as an Approach to Fundamental Physics, Roger Penrose
• What are we missing in our search for quantum gravity?, Lee Smolin
• A schema for duality, illustrated by bosonization, Jeremy Butterfield and Sebastian de Haro
• The dressing field method of gauge symmetry reduction, a review with examples, Thierry Masson et al
• Syntactic Phylogenetic Trees, Matilde Marcolli.