Mathematical physics

Requiring no background in quantum physics, this text guides beginners in understanding the current state of research in the novel, interdisciplinary area of quantum information.

Ten years after publication of the popular first edition of this volume, the index theorem continues to stand as a central result of modern mathematics-one of the most important foci for the interaction of topology, geometry, and analysis.

Submanifolds and Holonomy, Second Edition explores recent progress in the submanifold geometry of space forms, including new methods based on the holonomy of the normal connection.

The second edition of this book has a new title that more accurately reflects the table of contents.

Difference Equations: Theory, Applications and Advanced Topics, Third Edition provides a broad introduction to the mathematics of difference equations and some of their applications.

This book provides an introduction to functional analysis for non-experts in mathematics.

An Illustrated Introduction to Topology and Homotopy explores the beauty of topology and homotopy theory in a direct and engaging manner while illustrating the power of the theory through many, often surprising, applications.

The concept of the Euclidean simplex is important in the study of n-dimensional Euclidean geometry.

Designed for a one-semester course, Introduction to Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing presents fundamental concepts of numerical mathematics and explains how to implement and program numerical methods.

Nonlinear dynamical systems play an important role in a number of disciplines.

In this introductory chemical physics textbook, the authors discuss the interactions, bonding, electron density, and experimental techniques of free molecules, and apply spectroscopic methods to determine molecular parameters, dynamics, and chemical reactions.

It may tum out that, like certain other phenomena studied by sociologists, bouts of interest in the foundations of quantum mechanics tend to come in 60-year cycles.

The collision of electrons with molecules and molecular ions is a fundamental pro- cess in atomic and molecular physics and in chemistry.

The great advantage of coincidence measurements is that by suitable choice of the kinematical and geometrical arrangement one may probe delicate physical effects which would be swamped in less differential experiments.

The workshop "e;Biologically Inspired Physics"e; was organized, with the support of the NATO Scientific Affairs Division and the Directorate-General for Science, Research and Development of the Commission of the European Communities, in order to review some subjects of physics of condensed matter which are inspired by biological problems or deal with biological systems, but which address physical questions.

This book collects the lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Atoms in Strong Fields"e;, which took place on the island of Kos, Greece, during the two weeks of October 9-21,1988.

This book represents an extended and substantially revised version of my earlierbook, Optimal Control in Problems ofMathematical Physics,originally published in Russian in 1975.

Recent years have seen a rapid development of neural network control tech- niques and their successful applications.

By modern analytic mechanics we mean the classical mechanics of today, that is, the mechanics that has proven particularly useful in understanding the universe as we experience it from the solar system, to particle accelerators, to rocket motion.

This book is intended to serve as introductory and reference material for the application of integral transforms to a range of common mathematical problems.

The first, second, and third editions of this book seem to occur at ten year intervals.

Mathematics is playing an ever more important role in the physical and biological sciences, provoking a blurring of boundaries between scientific disciplines and a resurgence of interest in the modern as well as the clas- sical techniques of applied mathematics.

Fully Tuned Radial Basis Function Neural Networks for Flight Control presents the use of the Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural networks for adaptive control of nonlinear systems with emphasis on flight control applications.

The theory and applications of infinite dimensional dynamical systems have attracted the attention of scientists for quite some time.

Data Mining for Design and Manufacturing: Methods and Applications is the first book that brings together research and applications for data mining within design and manufacturing.

Derived from a course given at the University of Maryland for advanced graduate students, this book deals with some of the latest developments in our attempts to construct a unified theory of the fundamental interactions of nature.

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Based on courses given at the universities of Texas in Austin, and California in San Diego, this book deals with the basic mechanisms that determine the dynamic evolution of classical and quantum systems.

In the present edition I have included "e;Supplements and Problems"e; located at the end of each chapter.

"e;The task is done; the Maker rests.

The scientists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, led by Jas.

The theory of Hamiltonian systems is a vast subject which can be studied from many different viewpoints.

In this book the details of many calculations are provided for access to work in quantum groups, algebraic differential calculus, noncommutative geometry, fuzzy physics, discrete geometry, gauge theory, quantum integrable systems, braiding, finite topological spaces, some aspects of geometry and quantum mechanics and gravity.

Mathematics is playing an ever more important role in the physical and biological sciences, provoking a blurring of boundaries between scientific disciplines and a resurgence of interest in the modern as well as the clas- sical techniques of applied mathematics.

Quite apart from the fact that percolation theory had its ongm in an honest applied problem, it is a source of fascinating problems of the best kind for which a mathematician can wish: problems which are easy to state with a minimum of preparation, but whose solutions are apparently difficult and require new methods.

Partial differential equations is a many-faceted subject.

Partial differential equations is a many-faceted subject.

It has only been a couple of decades since Benoit Mandelbrot published his famous picture of what is now called the Mandelbrot set.

What's in this book This book contains an accelerated introduction to Maple, a computer alge- bra language.

Provides a new and more realistic framework for describing the dynamics of non-linear systems.

For many years, I have been interested in global analysis of nonlinear systems.

Undoubtedly, the Navier-Stokes equations are of basic importance within the context of modern theory of partial differential equations.

The use of the symmetries of a physical system in the study of its dynamics has a long history that goes back to the founders of c1assical mechanics.

Cellular Neural Networks and Analog VLSI brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.

For the past several years the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University has been teaching an extremely popular sophomore level differential equations course.

In this book we have developed the asymptotic analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems.

Since the beginning of the 1980's, a lot of news approaches of biomimetic inspiration have been defined and developed for imitating the brain behavior, for modeling non linear phenomenon, for providing new hardware architectures, for solving hard problems.