9781441972538-1441972536-Topology, Geometry and Gauge fields: Foundations (Texts in Applied Mathematics, 25)

Topology, Geometry and Gauge fields: Foundations (Texts in Applied Mathematics, 25)

ISBN-13: 9781441972538
ISBN-10: 1441972536
Edition: 2nd ed. 2011
Author: Gregory L. Naber
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Springer
Format: Hardcover 457 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781441972538
ISBN-10: 1441972536
Edition: 2nd ed. 2011
Author: Gregory L. Naber
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Springer
Format: Hardcover 457 pages

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Topology, Geometry and Gauge fields: Foundations (Texts in Applied Mathematics, 25) (ISBN-13: 9781441972538 and ISBN-10: 1441972536), written by authors Gregory L. Naber, was published by Springer in 2010. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Geometry & Topology (Mathematics) books. You can easily purchase or rent Topology, Geometry and Gauge fields: Foundations (Texts in Applied Mathematics, 25) (Hardcover, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Geometry & Topology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $14.06.

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Like any books on a subject as vast as this, this book has to have a point-of-view to guide the selection of topics. Naber takes the view that the rekindled interest that mathematics and physics have shown in each other of late should be fostered, and that this is best accomplished by allowing them to cohabit. The book weaves together rudimentary notions from the classical gauge theory of physics with the topological and geometrical concepts that became the mathematical models of these notions. The reader is asked to join the author on some vague notion of what an electromagnetic field might be, to be willing to accept a few of the more elementary pronouncements of quantum mechanics, and to have a solid background in real analysis and linear algebra and some of the vocabulary of modern algebra. In return, the book offers an excursion that begins with the definition of a topological space and finds its way eventually to the moduli space of anti-self-dual SU(2) connections on S4 with instanton number -1.

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