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Published by Brand: World Scientific Publishing Company, 1991
ISBN 10: 9810203446ISBN 13: 9789810203443
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Softcover. Condition: Good. This book is an introductory explication on the theme of knot and link invariants as generalized amplitudes (vacuum-vacuum amplitudes) for a quasi-physical process. The demands of the knot theory, coupled with a quantum statistical frame work create a context that naturally and powerfully includes an extraordinary range of interelated topics in topology and mathematical physics. The author takes a primarily combinatorial stance toward the knot theory and its relations with these subjects. This has the advantage of providing very direct access to the algebra and to the combinatorial topology, as well as the physical ideas. This book is divided into 2 parts: Part I of the book is a systematic course in knots and physics starting from the ground up. Part II is a set of lectures on various topics related with and sometimes based on Part I. Part II also explores some side-topics such as frictional properties of knots, relations with combinatorics, knots in dynamical systems.
Published by Brand: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2005
ISBN 10: 9812563660ISBN 13: 9789812563668
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Richard Feynmans never previously published doctoral thesis formed the heart of much of his brilliant and profound work in theoretical physics. Entitled "The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics," its original motive was to quantize the classical action-at-a-distance electrodynamics. Because that theory adopted an overall spacetime viewpoint, the classical Hamiltonian approach used in the conventional formulations of quantum theory could not be used, so Feynman turned to the Lagrangian function and the principle of least action as his points of departure.The result was the path integral approach, which satisfied and transcended its original motivation, and has enjoyed great success in renormalized quantum field theory, including the derivation of the ubiquitous Feynman diagrams for elementary particles. Path integrals have many other applications, including atomic, molecular, and nuclear scattering, statistical mechanics, quantum liquids and solids, Brownian motion, and noise theory. It also sheds new light on fundamental issues like the interpretation of quantum theory because of its new overall spacetime viewpoint.The present volume includes Feynmans Princeton thesis, the related review article "SpaceTime Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics" [Reviews of Modern Physics 20 (1948), 367 387], Paul Diracs seminal paper "The Lagrangian in Quantum Mechanics [Physikalische Zeitschrift der Sowjetunion, Band 3, Heft 1 (1933)], and an introduction by Laurie M Brown.
Published by Brand: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2005
ISBN 10: 9812564012ISBN 13: 9789812564016
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
No binding. Condition: Good. First Edition. With the poems written by winner of the Posner Poetry Award from the Council of Wisconsin Writers in 2005, this coffee-table book will delight and inform general readers curious about ideas of chaos, fractals, and nonlinear complex systems. Developed out of ten years of interdisciplinary seminars in chaos and complex systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it features multiple ways of knowing: Robin Chapman's poems of everyday experience of change in a complex world, associated metaphorically with Julien Clinton Sprott's full-color computer art generated from billions of versions of only three simple equations for strange attractors, Julia sets, and iterated function systems; his definitions of 39 key terms; a mathematical appendix; and even a multiple-choice quiz to test understanding. Accompanied by a CD-ROM of the poet reading 13 poems and 1,000 images of chaos art from which slide shows can be generated and 100 high-resolution posters created, the book has a foreword by Cliff Pickover, author of A Passion for Mathematics.
Published by Brand: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2005
ISBN 10: 9812563660ISBN 13: 9789812563668
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: new. Richard Feynmans never previously published doctoral thesis formed the heart of much of his brilliant and profound work in theoretical physics. Entitled "The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics," its original motive was to quantize the classical action-at-a-distance electrodynamics. Because that theory adopted an overall spacetime viewpoint, the classical Hamiltonian approach used in the conventional formulations of quantum theory could not be used, so Feynman turned to the Lagrangian function and the principle of least action as his points of departure.The result was the path integral approach, which satisfied and transcended its original motivation, and has enjoyed great success in renormalized quantum field theory, including the derivation of the ubiquitous Feynman diagrams for elementary particles. Path integrals have many other applications, including atomic, molecular, and nuclear scattering, statistical mechanics, quantum liquids and solids, Brownian motion, and noise theory. It also sheds new light on fundamental issues like the interpretation of quantum theory because of its new overall spacetime viewpoint.The present volume includes Feynmans Princeton thesis, the related review article "SpaceTime Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics" [Reviews of Modern Physics 20 (1948), 367 387], Paul Diracs seminal paper "The Lagrangian in Quantum Mechanics [Physikalische Zeitschrift der Sowjetunion, Band 3, Heft 1 (1933)], and an introduction by Laurie M Brown.
Published by Brand: World Scientific Publishing Company, 1999
ISBN 10: 981023774XISBN 13: 9789810237745
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: new. Proceedings of the Predeal International Summer School held in Predeal, Romania on August 24 September 5, 1998 which was devoted to the study of structure and dynamics of nuclear systems and their constituents.
Published by Brand: World Scientific Publishing Company, 1998
ISBN 10: 9810234279ISBN 13: 9789810234270
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Softcover. Condition: Good. 2. This highly unusual book is a serious inquiry into Schrdinger's question, "What is life?", and at the same time a celebration of life itself. It takes the reader on a voyage of discovery through many areas of contemporary physics, from non-equilibrium thermodynamics and quantum optics to liquid crystals and fractals, all necessary for illuminating the problem of life. In the process, the reader is treated to a rare and exquisite view of the organism, gaining novel insights, not only into the physics but also into "the poetry and meaning of being alive" This book is intended for all who love the subject.Contents: What Is It to Be Alive?; Do Organisms Contravene the Second Law?; Can the Second Law Cope with Organized Complexity?; Energy Flow and Living Cycles; How to Catch a Falling Electron; Towards a Thermodynamics of Organized Complexity; The Seventy-Three Octaves of Nature's Music; Coherent Excitation of the Body Electric; How Coherent Is the Organism?; Life is All the Colours of the Rainbow in a Worm; The Liquid Crystalline Organism; Crystal Consciousness; Quantum Entanglement and Coherence; The Ignorance of the External Observer; Time and Freewill.
Published by Brand: World Scientific Publishing Company, 1998
ISBN 10: 9810234279ISBN 13: 9789810234270
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Softcover. Condition: New. 2. This highly unusual book is a serious inquiry into Schrdinger's question, "What is life?", and at the same time a celebration of life itself. It takes the reader on a voyage of discovery through many areas of contemporary physics, from non-equilibrium thermodynamics and quantum optics to liquid crystals and fractals, all necessary for illuminating the problem of life. In the process, the reader is treated to a rare and exquisite view of the organism, gaining novel insights, not only into the physics but also into "the poetry and meaning of being alive" This book is intended for all who love the subject.Contents: What Is It to Be Alive?; Do Organisms Contravene the Second Law?; Can the Second Law Cope with Organized Complexity?; Energy Flow and Living Cycles; How to Catch a Falling Electron; Towards a Thermodynamics of Organized Complexity; The Seventy-Three Octaves of Nature's Music; Coherent Excitation of the Body Electric; How Coherent Is the Organism?; Life is All the Colours of the Rainbow in a Worm; The Liquid Crystalline Organism; Crystal Consciousness; Quantum Entanglement and Coherence; The Ignorance of the External Observer; Time and Freewill.
Published by Brand: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2009
ISBN 10: 9814273562ISBN 13: 9789814273565
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2010
ISBN 10: 9812836799ISBN 13: 9789812836793
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2009
ISBN 10: 9814273562ISBN 13: 9789814273565
Seller: Hafa Adai Books, Plainfield, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: very good.
Published by Brand: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2012
ISBN 10: 1848167482ISBN 13: 9781848167483
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.