AuthorLawvere, F. William. author
TitleCategories in Continuum Physics [electronic resource] : Lectures given at a Workshop held at SUNY, Buffalo 1982 / by F. William Lawvere, Stephen H. Schanuel
ImprintBerlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1986
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0076928
Descript IV, 126 p. online resource

CONTENT

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?


SUBJECT

  1. Mathematics
  2. K-theory
  3. Physics
  4. Mathematics
  5. K-Theory
  6. Theoretical
  7. Mathematical and Computational Physics