Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 358 pages
- Published by: University Of Chicago Press September 15, 1985
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0226288625
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0226288628
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6 x 0.6 inches
- Weighs: 1 pounds
Product Description
Mathematical Physics is an introduction to such basic mathematical structures as groups, vector spaces, topological spaces, measure spaces, and Hilbert space. Geroch uses category theory to emphasize both the interrelationships among different structures and the unity of mathematics. Perhaps the most valuable feature of the book is the illuminating intuitive discussion of the "whys" of proofs and of axioms and definitions. This book, based on Geroch's University of Chicago course, will be especially helpful to those working in theoretical physics, including such areas as relativity, particle physics, and
astrophysics.
About The Author
Robert Geroch is professor in the Departments of Physics and Mathematics and at the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago.
Reader ReviewsThis is a very nice, compact (no pun intended) book - it's not a mathematics textbook in the usual sense (i.e. a detailed users manual) but an overview of how all the different bits fit together in mathematical physics - a map. It sits beside Choquet-Bruhat et al.'s Analysis, Manifolds and Physics on my shelf. It's worth pointing out that Robert Geroch is thanked, together with Roger Penrose, in the preface to 'The Large-scale Structure of Spacetime', as inspiration and influence.
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