9781421422671-1421422670-Emmy Noether's Wonderful Theorem

Emmy Noether's Wonderful Theorem

ISBN-13: 9781421422671
ISBN-10: 1421422670
Edition: revised and updated edition
Author: Dwight E. Neuenschwander
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback 344 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781421422671
ISBN-10: 1421422670
Edition: revised and updated edition
Author: Dwight E. Neuenschwander
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback 344 pages

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Emmy Noether's Wonderful Theorem (ISBN-13: 9781421422671 and ISBN-10: 1421422670), written by authors Dwight E. Neuenschwander, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2017. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other History & Philosophy (Applied, Mathematics, History, Nuclear Physics, Physics) books. You can easily purchase or rent Emmy Noether's Wonderful Theorem (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used History & Philosophy books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $9.12.

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One of the most important―and beautiful―mathematical solutions ever devised, Noether’s theorem touches on every aspect of physics.

"In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began."―Albert Einstein

The year was 1915, and the young mathematician Emmy Noether had just settled into Göttingen University when Albert Einstein visited to lecture on his nearly finished general theory of relativity. Two leading mathematicians of the day, David Hilbert and Felix Klein, dug into the new theory with gusto, but had difficulty reconciling it with what was known about the conservation of energy. Knowing of her expertise in invariance theory, they requested Noether’s help. To solve the problem, she developed a novel theorem, applicable across all of physics, which relates conservation laws to continuous symmetries―one of the most important pieces of mathematical reasoning ever developed.

Noether’s "first" and "second" theorem was published in 1918. The first theorem relates symmetries under global spacetime transformations to the conservation of energy and momentum, and symmetry under global gauge transformations to charge conservation. In continuum mechanics and field theories, these conservation laws are expressed as equations of continuity. The second theorem, an extension of the first, allows transformations with local gauge invariance, and the equations of continuity acquire the covariant derivative characteristic of coupled matter-field systems. General relativity, it turns out, exhibits local gauge invariance. Noether’s theorem also laid the foundation for later generations to apply local gauge invariance to theories of elementary particle interactions.

In Dwight E. Neuenschwander’s new edition of Emmy Noether’s Wonderful Theorem, readers will encounter an updated explanation of Noether’s "first" theorem. The discussion of local gauge invariance has been expanded into a detailed presentation of the motivation, proof, and applications of the "second" theorem, including Noether’s resolution of concerns about general relativity. Other refinements in the new edition include an enlarged biography of Emmy Noether’s life and work, parallels drawn between the present approach and Noether’s original 1918 paper, and a summary of the logic behind Noether’s theorem.

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