Differential Forms with Applications to the Physical Sciences (Paperback)

Harley Flanders

ISBN 10: 0486661695 / ISBN 13: 9780486661698

Published by Dover Publications Inc., New York, 2003

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Paperback. A graduate-level text utilizing exterior differential forms in the analysis of a variety of mathematical problems in the physical and engineering sciences. "To the reader who wishes to obtain a bird's-eye view of the theory of differential forms with applications to other branches of pure mathematics, applied mathematic and physics, I can recommend no better book." - T. J. Willmore, London Mathematical Society Journal. This excellent text introduces the use of exterior differential forms as a powerful tool in the analysis of a variety of mathematical problems in the physical and engineering sciences. Requiring familiarity with several variable calculus and some knowledge of linear algebra and set theory, it is directed primarily to engineers and physical scientists, but it has also been used successfully to introduce modern differential geometry to students in mathematics. Chapter I introduces exterior differential forms and their comparisons with tensors. The next three chapters take up exterior algebra, the exterior derivative and their applications. Chapter V discusses manifolds and integration, and Chapter VI covers applications in Euclidean space. The last three chapters explore applications to differential equations, differential geometry, and group theory. "The book is very readable, indeed, enjoyable - and, although addressed to engineers and scientists, should be not at all inaccessible to or inappropriate for. first year graduate students and bright undergraduates." - F. E. J. Linton, Wesleyan University, American Mathematical Monthly. A graduate-level text utilizing exterior differential forms in the analysis of a variety of mathematical problems in the physical and engineering sciences. Includes 45 illustrations. Index. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Title: Differential Forms with Applications to the Physical Sciences (Paperback)
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486661695
• ISBN 13: 9780486661698
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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A graduate-level text introducing the use of exterior differential forms as a powerful tool in the analysis of a variety of mathematical problems in the physical and engineering sciences. Directed primarily to graduate-level engineers and physical scientists, it has also been used successfully to introduce modern differential geometry to graduate students in mathematics. Includes 45 illustrations. Index.

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