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020 _a9780511817977 (ebook)
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020 _z9780521539272 (paperback)
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_beng
_erda
_cUkCbUP
050 0 0 _aQC20.7.D52
_bF73 2004
082 0 0 _a530.15/636
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100 1 _aFrankel, Theodore,
_d1929-
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe geometry of physics :
_ban introduction /
_cTheodore Frankel.
250 _aSecond edition.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2004.
300 _a1 online resource (xxvi, 694 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aThis book provides a working knowledge of those parts of exterior differential forms, differential geometry, algebraic and differential topology, Lie groups, vector bundles and Chern forms that are essential for a deeper understanding of both classical and modern physics and engineering. Included are discussions of analytical and fluid dynamics, electromagnetism (in flat and curved space), thermodynamics, the deformation tensors of elasticity, soap films, special and general relativity, the Dirac operator and spinors, and gauge fields, including Yang-Mills, the Aharonov-Bohm effect, Berry phase, and instanton winding numbers, quarks, and quark model for mesons. Before discussing abstract notions of differential geometry, geometric intuition is developed through a rather extensive introduction to the study of surfaces in ordinary space; consequently, the book should be of interest also to mathematics students. Ideal for graduate and advanced undergraduate students of physics, engineering and mathematics as a course text or for self study.
650 0 _aGeometry, Differential.
650 0 _aMathematical physics.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521833301
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511817977
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