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- With contributions from Michael Atiyah, Roger Penrose, Edward Witten, Misha Gromov, Alain Connes, Lee Smolin, John Stachel and many others
- Accessible to a broad audience with a background in mathematics or physics
- Contains historical chapters such as the one on the relationship between Hilbert and Einstein
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Minkowski space
- Noncommutative geometry
- K-homology
- Relationship between physics and mathematics
- K-theory
- Heisenberg commutation relations
- Twistor theory
- Bosonization
- Pati-Salam symmetries
- Hilbert’s sixth problem
- quantum groups
- Virasoro algebra
- Penrose's quasi-local mass construction
- Thirring model
- massive integrable field theory
- string theory
- quantum gravity
- gauge theory
- Hilbert's foundations of physics
- Riemannian geometry
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Editors and Affiliations
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Nice and Sophia Antipolis University, Nice, France
Joseph Kouneiher
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Foundations of Mathematics and Physics One Century After Hilbert
Book Subtitle: New Perspectives
Editors: Joseph Kouneiher
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64813-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64812-5Published: 06 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09728-8Published: 19 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64813-2Published: 26 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 441
Topics: Mathematical Physics, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, History of Mathematical Sciences