Categories in Continuum Physics: Lectures Given at a Workshop Held at Suny, Buffalo 1982

ISBN-13: 9783540160960 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 126 str.

F. William Lawvere; Stephen H. Schanuel

Spis treści

Continuum mechanics and geometric integration theory.- Structure of continuum physics.- On differentiable spaces.- Cartesian closed categories and analysis of smooth maps.- to synthetic differential geometry, and a synthetic theory of dislocations.- Synthetic reasoning and variable sets.- Recent research on the foundations of thermodynamics.- Global and local versions of the second law of thermodynamics.- Thermodynamics and the hahn-banach theorem.- What is the length of a potato?.