R N Sen

Causality, Measurement Theory and the Differentiable Structure of Space-Time

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Produktbeschreibung

Introduces graduate students and researchers to mathematical physics, providing a mathematical discourse on the relation between theoretical and experimental physics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 177mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9780521880541
• ISBN-10: 0521880548
• Artikelnr.: 26984771

Autorenporträt

R. N. Sen was a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, and is now retired. His main research interests were the theory of symmetry of infinite quantum-mechanical systems and mathematical investigations into the relation between mathematics and physics, particularly the origins of the differentiable structure of space-time. He has taught a broad spectrum of courses on physics and mathematics, as well as demography. A life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, he has been a Gauss Professor in Göttingen and is also a member of the International Association for Mathematical Physics and the Israel Mathematical Union.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Part I: Introduction to Part I
1. Mathematical structures on sets of points
2. Definition of causality on a structureless set
3. The topology of ordered spaces
4. Completions of ordered spaces
5. Structures on order-complete spaces
Part II: Introduction to Part II
6. Real numbers and classical measurements
7. Special topics in quantum mechanics
8. Von Neumann's theory of measurement
9. Macroscopic observables in quantum physics
10. Sewell's theory of measurement
11. Summing-up
12. Large quantum systems
Epilogue
Appendixes
References
Index.