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

ISBN-13: 9780521880541 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 412 str.

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Opis

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

Recenzje

'… this is a book for a devoted reader with special interests in this area …' MAA Reviews

Spis treści

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.