Categories in Continuum Physics: Lectures Given at a Workshop Held at SUNY, Buffalo 1982 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

F. William Lawvere

ISBN 10: 3540160965 / ISBN 13: 9783540160960

Editore: Springer 1986-02-01, 1986

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• Titolo: Categories in Continuum Physics: Lectures Given at a Workshop Held at SUNY, Buffalo 1982 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)
• Editore: Springer 1986-02-01
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3540160965
• ISBN 13: 9783540160960
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New

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Continuum mechanics and geometric integration theory.- Structure of continuum physics.- On differentiable spaces.- Cartesian closed categories and analysis of smooth maps.- to synthetic differential geometry, and a synthetic theory of dislocations.- Synthetic reasoning and variable sets.- Recent research on the foundations of thermodynamics.- Global and local versions of the second law of thermodynamics.- Thermodynamics and the hahn-banach theorem.- What is the length of a potato?.