Categories in Continuum Physics [electronic resource] : Lectures given at a Workshop held at SUNY, Buffalo 1982 / by F. William Lawvere, Stephen H. Schanuel.
Material type: TextSeries: Lecture Notes in Mathematics ; 1174Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1986Description: IV, 126 p. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783540397601
- 512.66 23
- QA612.33
Continuum mechanics and geometric integration theory -- Structure of continuum physics -- On differentiable spaces -- Cartesian closed categories and analysis of smooth maps -- to synthetic differential geometry, and a synthetic theory of dislocations -- Synthetic reasoning and variable sets -- Recent research on the foundations of thermodynamics -- Global and local versions of the second law of thermodynamics -- Thermodynamics and the hahn-banach theorem -- What is the length of a potato?.
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