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Numerous worked examples and exercises highlight this unified treatment. Simple explanations of difficult subjects make it accessible to undergraduates as well as an ideal self-study guide. 1990 edition.
Accompanying CD-ROM contains forms from the text.
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The twentieth century has witnessed a striking transformation in the un derstanding of the theories of mathematical physics. There has emerged clearly the idea that physical theories are significantly characterized by their abstract mathematical structure. This is in opposition to the tradi tional opinion that one should look to the specific applications of a theory in order to understand it. One might with reason now espouse the view that to understand the deeper character of a theory one must know its abstract structure and understand the significance of that struc ture, while to understand how a theory might be modified in light of its experimental inadequacies one must be intimately acqu...