Functional differential geometry / (Record no. 73333)
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| fixed length control field | 02999nam a2200505 i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 6574626 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20220712204813.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 151223s2013 mau ob 001 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780262315609 |
| -- | electronic |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| -- | electronic |
| 082 04 - CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call Number | 516.3/6 |
| 100 1# - AUTHOR NAME | |
| Author | Sussman, Gerald Jay, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Functional differential geometry / |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 1 PDF (xx, 228 pages). |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Physics is naturally expressed in mathematical language. Students new to the subject must simultaneously learn an idiomatic mathematical language and the content that is expressed in that language. It is as if they were asked to read Les Mis�rables while struggling with French grammar. This book offers an innovative way to learn the differential geometry needed as a foundation for a deep understanding of general relativity or quantum field theory as taught at the college level.The approach taken by the authors (and used in their classes at MIT for many years) differs from the conventional one in several ways, including an emphasis on the development of the covariant derivative and an avoidance of the use of traditional index notation for tensors in favor of a semantically richer language of vector fields and differential forms. But the biggest single difference is the authors' integration of computer programming into their explanations. By programming a computer to interpret a formula, the student soon learns whether or not a formula is correct. Students are led to improve their program, and as a result improve their understanding. |
| 700 1# - AUTHOR 2 | |
| Author 2 | Wisdom, Jack. |
| 700 1# - AUTHOR 2 | |
| Author 2 | Farr, Will. |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6574626 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | eBooks |
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| -- | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| -- | MIT Press, |
| -- | [2013] |
| 264 #2 - | |
| -- | [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : |
| -- | IEEE Xplore, |
| -- | [2013] |
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| -- | text |
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| -- | electronic |
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| -- | online resource |
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| -- | Description based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Geometry, Differential. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Functional differential equations. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Mathematical physics. |
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