Mathematical Analysis of Problems in the Natural Sciences

Vladimir Zorich

ISBN 10: 3642148123 / ISBN 13: 9783642148125

Editore: Springer-Verlag, 2011

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• Titolo: Mathematical Analysis of Problems in the Natural Sciences
• Editore: Springer-Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3642148123
• ISBN 13: 9783642148125
• Rilegatura: Hard cover
• Condizione: Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No jacket
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Science
  • Mathematics

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Riassunto

Based on a two-semester course aimed at illustrating various interactions of "pure mathematics" with other sciences, such as hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, statistical physics and information theory, this text unifies three general topics of analysis and physics, which are as follows: the dimensional analysis of physical quantities, which contains various applications including Kolmogorov's model for turbulence; functions of very large number of variables and the principle of concentration along with the non-linear law of large numbers, the geometric meaning of the Gauss and Maxwell distributions, and the Kotelnikov-Shannon theorem; and, finally, classical thermodynamics and contact geometry, which covers two main principles of thermodynamics in the language of differential forms, contact distributions, the Frobenius theorem and the Carnot-Caratheodory metric. It includes problems, historical remarks, and Zorich's popular article, "Mathematics as language and method."

Informazioni sull?autore

Vladimir A. Zorich is a distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Moscow who solved the problem of global homeomorphism for space quasi-conformal mappings and provided its far-reaching generalizations.