Mathematical physics

A non-linear wave is one of the fundamental objects of nature.

In this monograph, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics is developed by means of ensemble methods on the basis of the Boltzmann equation, the generic Boltzmann equations for classical and quantum dilute gases, and a generalised Boltzmann equation for dense simple fluids.

It is now a well-established tradition that every four years, at the end of winter, a group of 'celestial mechanicians' from all over the world gather in the Austrian Alps at the invitation of R.

In this book the authors develop and work out applications to gravity and gauge theories and their interactions with generic matter fields, including spinors in full detail.

Modulational Interactions in Plasmas is the first book to present all the basic considerations relevant to the topic.

The Twelfth International Workshop on Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Sciences and Engineering (MaxEnt 92) was held in Paris, France, at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), July 19-24, 1992.

This volume, the fourteenth in the Space Sciences Series of ISS/, is dedicated to the matter in the universe, which was the topic of a workshop organized by ISSI from 19 to 22 March 2001 in Bern.

For seventy years, we have known that Einstein's theory is essentially a theory of propagation of waves for the gravitational field.

This book is about the light like (degenerate) geometry of submanifolds needed to fill a gap in the general theory of submanifolds.

John von Neumann (1903-1957) was undoubtedly one of the scientific geniuses of the 20th century.

One ofthe most important features of the development of physical and mathematical sciences in the beginning of the 20th century was the demolition of prevailing views of the three-dimensional Euclidean space as the only possible mathematical description of real physical space.

The aim of this book is to interpret all the laws of classical electromagnetism in a modern coherent way.

This book has a long history of more than 20 years.

This book contains the courses given at the Fourth School on Statistical Physics and Cooperative Systems held at Santiago, Chile, from 12th to 16th December 1994.

This book contains the courses given at the Third School on Statistical Physics and Cooperative Systems held at Santiago, Chile, from 14th to 18th December 1992.

Our esteemed colleague C.

This monograph is devoted to an entirely new branch of nonlinear physics - solitary intrinsic states, or autosolitons, which form in a broad class of physical, chemical and biological dissipative systems.

This volume is based on the lectures given at the First Inter University Graduate School on Gravitation and Cosmology organized by IUCAA, Pune, in 1989.

I am very pleased and privileged to write a short foreword for the monograph of Dean Driebe: Fully Chaotic Maps and Broken Time Symmetry.

This book is dedicated to Pieter J.

In this book, Veikko Rantala makes a systematic attempt to understand cognitive characteristics of translation by bringing its logical, pragmatic and hermeneutic features together and examining a number of scientific, logical, and philosophical applications.

The three well known revolutions of the past centuries - the Copernican, the Darwinian and the Freudian - each in their own way had a deflating and mechanizing effect on the position of humans in nature.

From the very beginning it was realised that quantum physics involves radically new interpretative and epistemological consequences.

Marcellliesz's lectures delivered on October 1957 -January 1958 at the Uni- versity of Maryland, College Park, have been previously published only infor- mally as a manuscript entitled CLIFFORD NUMBERS AND SPINORS (Chap- ters I - IV).

The Symposium entitled: Causality and Locality in Modern Physics and As- tronomy: Open Questions and Possible Solutions was held at York University, Toronto, during the last week of August 1997.

It was long ago that group analysis of differential equations became a powerful tool for studying nonlinear equations and boundary value problems.

Even if the subject is a long-standing one, this is the first monograph on this field.

In this book we develop various mathematical models of information dynamics, I -dynamics (including the process of thinking), based on methods of classical and quantum physics.

ThisvolumecelebratestheeightiethbirthdayofJosephB.

This volume records the proceedings of a Forum on The Fundamentals of Electron Density, Density Matrix and Density Functional Theory in Atoms, Molecules and the Solid State held at the Coseners' House, Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxon.

In the last decade several international conferences on Finsler, Lagrange and Hamilton geometries were organized in Braov, Romania (1994), Seattle, USA (1995), Edmonton, Canada (1998), besides the Seminars that periodically are held in Japan and Romania.

Dynamical systems theory is especially well-suited for determining the possible asymptotic states (at both early and late times) of cosmological models, particularly when the governing equations are a finite system of autonomous ordinary differential equations.

The kinetic theory of gases as we know it dates to the paper of Boltzmann in 1872.

Conventional digital computation methods have run into a se- rious speed bottleneck due to their serial nature.

HISTORICAL PRELUDE Ettore Majorana's fame solidly rests on testimonies like the following, from the evocative pen of Giuseppe Cocconi.

This is a collection of some works of Polish philosophers and physicists on philosophical problems of time and spacetime.

Mesoscopic physics has made great strides in the last few years.

The purpose of this monograph is to show how a compliant offshore structure in an ocean environment can be modeled in two and three di- mensions.

Over the past few years a certain shift of focus within the theory of algebras of generalized functions (in the sense of J.

In this volume, the authors present theoretical explanations for a few basic problems connected with the propagation of extra wide band, short impulses in linear media, and with the propagation of whistlers and megawhistlers in plasmas.

This volume contains the papers presented at the IUTAM Symposium on Geometry and Statistics of Turbulence, held in November 1999, at the Shonan International Village Center, Hayama (Kanagawa-ken), Japan.

This monograph on quantum wires and quantum devices is a companion vol- ume to the author's Quantum Chaos and Mesoscopic Systems (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1997).

It seems hard to believe, but mathematicians were not interested in integration problems on infinite-dimensional nonlinear structures up to 70s of our century.

of the approximation at hand will be outlined from the viewpoint of physics rather than of many possible astronomical applications.

Quantum measurement (Le.

The theory of foliations and contact forms have experienced such great de- velopment recently that it is natural they have implications in the field of mechanics.