Deep Beauty

Deep Beauty
Author: Hans Halvorson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2011-04-18
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 113949922X

No scientific theory has caused more puzzlement and confusion than quantum theory. Physics is supposed to help us to understand the world, but quantum theory makes it seem a very strange place. This book is about how mathematical innovation can help us gain deeper insight into the structure of the physical world. Chapters by top researchers in the mathematical foundations of physics explore new ideas, especially novel mathematical concepts at the cutting edge of future physics. These creative developments in mathematics may catalyze the advances that enable us to understand our current physical theories, especially quantum theory. The authors bring diverse perspectives, unified only by the attempt to introduce fresh concepts that will open up new vistas in our understanding of future physics.

Relativity and Gravitation, Classical and Quantum

Relativity and Gravitation, Classical and Quantum
Author: J. C. D'Olivo
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 548
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Gravitation
ISBN: 9789810207151

Proceedings of SILARG VII, the 7th Latin-American Symposium on Relativity and Gravitation, Cocoyoc, Mexico, December 1990. Some 60 contributions discuss formal developments, exact solutions, radiative spacetimes, relativistic astrophysics, cosmology (classical and quantum), 2+1 gravity and quantum gravity, other theories of gravitation, and field theory (classical and quantum). No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR