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Categories in Continuum Physics

Lectures Given at a Workshop Held at SUNY, Buffalo 1982

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (LNM, volume 1174)

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Table of contents (11 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IV
  2. Introduction

    • F. William Lawvere
    Pages 1-16
  3. Structure of continuum physics

    • William O. Williams
    Pages 30-37
  4. On differentiable spaces

    • Kuo-Tsai Chen
    Pages 38-42
  5. Synthetic reasoning and variable sets

    • Gonzalo E. Reyes
    Pages 69-82
  6. Recent research on the foundations of thermodynamics

    • Bernard D. Coleman, David R. Owen
    Pages 83-99
  7. Thermodynamics and the hahn-banach theorem

    • Martin Feinberg, Richard Lavine
    Pages 115-117
  8. What is the length of a potato?

    • Stephen H. Schanuel
    Pages 118-126

Keywords

  • differential geometry
  • geometry
  • law of thermodynamics
  • mechanics
  • thermodynamics

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Categories in Continuum Physics

  • Book Subtitle: Lectures Given at a Workshop Held at SUNY, Buffalo 1982

  • Authors: F. William Lawvere, Stephen H. Schanuel

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Mathematics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0076928

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-16096-0Published: 01 February 1986

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-39760-1Published: 14 November 2006

  • Series ISSN: 0075-8434

  • Series E-ISSN: 1617-9692

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IV, 126

  • Topics: K-Theory, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

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