Mathematical physics 2000 /

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Imprint:London : Imperial College Press ; Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Pub., c2000.
Description:vii, 326 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4306599
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Other authors / contributors:Fokas, A. S., 1952-
International Conference on Mathematical Physics (13th : 2000 : Imperial College, London)
ISBN:186094230X (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Modern Mathematical Physics: What It Should Be
  • New Applications of the Chiral Anomaly
  • Fluctuations and Entropy Driven Space--Time Intermittency in Navier--Stokes Fluids
  • Superstrings and the Unification of the Physical Forces
  • Questions in Quantum Physics: A Personal View
  • What Good are Quantum Field Theory Infinities?
  • Constructive Quantum Field Theory
  • Fourier's Law: A Challenge to Theorists
  • The "Corpuscular" Structure of the Spectra of Operators Describing Large Systems
  • Vortex- and Magneto-Dynamics--A Topological Perspective
  • Gauge Theory: The Gentle Revolution
  • Random Matrices as Paradigm
  • Wavefunction Collapse as a Real Gravitational Effect
  • Schrodinger Operators in the Twenty-First Century
  • The Classical Three-Body Problem--Where is Abstract Mathematics, Physical Intuition, Computational Physics Most Powerful?
  • Infinite Particle Systems and Their Scaling Limits
  • Supersymmetry: A Personal View