| Clifford (Geometric) Algebras: With Applications to Physics, Mathematics, and Engineering 1996. Corr. 2nd Edition Contributor(s): Baylis, William E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0817638687 ISBN-13: 9780817638689 Publisher: Birkhauser OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 1996 Annotation: Leading authorities in the emerging field of Clifford (geometric) algebras have contributed to this fundamental and comprehensive text. The subject of Clifford algebras is presented here in efficient geometric language: common concepts in physics are clarified, united and extended in new and sometimes surprising directions. The text may well serve as a pedagogical tool for either self study or in courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Bibliographies complete many chapters and an index covers the entire book. Those new to Clifford algebras may start by reading the Introduction, after which practically any set of chapters can be read independently of the others. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Essays - Mathematics | Geometry - Differential - Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational |
| Dewey: 516.36 |
| LCCN: 96025142 |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 7.28" W x 10.19" (2.55 lbs) 517 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume is an outgrowth of the 1995 Summer School on Theoretical Physics of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP), held in Banff, Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies, from July 30 to August 12,1995. The chapters, based on lectures given at the School, are designed to be tutorial in nature, and many include exercises to assist the learning process. Most lecturers gave three or four fifty-minute lectures aimed at relative novices in the field. More emphasis is therefore placed on pedagogy and establishing comprehension than on erudition and superior scholarship. Of course, new and exciting results are presented in applications of Clifford algebras, but in a coherent and user-friendly way to the nonspecialist. The subject area of the volume is Clifford algebra and its applications. Through the geometric language of the Clifford-algebra approach, many concepts in physics are clarified, united, and extended in new and sometimes surprising directions. In particular, the approach eliminates the formal gaps that traditionally separate clas- sical, quantum, and relativistic physics. It thereby makes the study of physics more efficient and the research more penetrating, and it suggests resolutions to a major physics problem of the twentieth century, namely how to unite quantum theory and gravity. The term "geometric algebra" was used by Clifford himself, and David Hestenes has suggested its use in order to emphasize its wide applicability, and b& cause the developments by Clifford were themselves based heavily on previous work by Grassmann, Hamilton, Rodrigues, Gauss, and others. |