Mathematical physics

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Novel instruments for high-precision imaging polarimetry have opened new possibilities, not only for diagnostics of magnetic fields, but also for exploring effects in radiative scattering, atomic physics, spectral line formation and radiative transfer.

in this work, we must therefore assume several abstract concepts that hardly need defending at this point in the history of mechanics.

This book contains the courses given at the Fifth School on Complex Systems held at Santiago, Chile, from 9th .

This work has grown out of the lecture notes that were prepared for a series of seminars on some selected topics in quantum logic.

Statistical mechanics deals with systems in which chaos and randomness reign supreme.

Despite the fact that images constitute the main objects in computer vision and image analysis, there is remarkably little concern about their actual definition.

In spite of the impressive predictive power and strong mathematical structure of quantum mechanics, the theory has always suffered from important conceptual problems.

We are often told that quantum phenomena demand radical revisions of our scientific world view and that no physical theory describing well defined objects, such as particles described by their positions, evolving in a well defined way, let alone deterministically, can account for such phenomena.

But to admit things not visible to the gross creatures that we are is, in my opinion, to show a decent humility, and not just a lamentable addiction to metaphysics.

This book contains the proceedings of a meeting that brought together friends and colleagues of Guy Rideau at the Universite Denis Diderot (Paris, France) in January 1995.

For many physicists quantum theory contains strong conceptual difficulties, while for others the apparent conclusions about the reality of our physical world and the ways in which we discover that reality remain philosophically unacceptable.

Quantitative Sociodynamics presents a general strategy for interdisciplinary model building and its application to a quantitative description of behavioural changes based on social interaction processes.

In 1961 Robinson introduced an entirely new version of the theory of infinitesimals, which he called `Nonstandard analysis'.

This volume is dedicated to the memory of Albert Crumeyrolle, who died on June 17, 1992.

Is time, even locally, like the real line?

The intention of this book is to explain to a mathematician having no previous knowledge in this domain, what "e;noncommutative probability"e; is.

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This volume describes the current state of knowledge of random spatial processes, particularly those arising in physics.

The Adomian decomposition method enables the accurate and efficient analytic solution of nonlinear ordinary or partial differential equations without the need to resort to linearization or perturbation approaches.

Around 1978, a mutation of associative algebras was introduced to generalize the formalism of classical mechanics as well as quantum mechanics.

Magnetic fields are responsible for much of the variability and structuring in the universe, but only on the Sun can the basic magnetic field related processes be explored in detail.

The present book has been written by two mathematicians and one physicist: a pure mathematician specializing in Finsler geometry (Makoto Matsumoto), one working in mathematical biology (Peter Antonelli), and a mathematical physicist specializing in information thermodynamics (Roman Ingarden).

Many important phenomena in fluid motion are evident in vortex flow, i.

The choice of topics in this book may seem somewhat arbitrary, even though we have attempted to organize them in a logical structure.

Approach your problems from the right end It isn't that they can't see the solution.

This book is written for scientists and engineers whose work involves wave reflec- tion or transmission.

There exist essentially two levels of investigation in theoretical physics.

On Friday, February 20, 1980, I had the pleasure to be present at the inaugural lecture of my colleague Jan Reedijk, who had just been named at the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry of Leiden University.

These two volumes constitute the Proceedings of the `Conference Moshe Flato, 1999'.

The search for examples of proton radioactivity has resulted in the discovery of a large number of proton emitters in the region 50 < Z < 84 [1].

'Et moi, "e;'f si j'avait su comment en revenir, One service mathematics has rendered the je n'y serais point aile':' human race.

Quantum theory is one of the most fascinating and successful constructs in the intellectual history of mankind.

The Relativists and Cosmologists in India organized an international conference in Goa, India, in 1987, known as the International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology (ICGC-87).

This book reflects our own struggle to understand the semiclassical behaviour of quantized fields in the presence of boundaries.

The theory of partial differential equations is a wide and rapidly developing branch of contemporary mathematics.

Recent advances in our understanding of complex composite media, especially chiral media for microwave applications, suggest the feasibility of creating novel materials with unusual properties and the possibility of constructing new microwave devices using such materials.

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THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE QUANTUM THEORY OF LIGHT In August of 1995, a group of over 70 physicists met at York University for a three-day symposium in honour of Professor Jean-Pierre Vigier.

There are numerous technological materials - such as metals, polymers, ceramics, concrete, and many others - that vary in properties and serviceability.