1.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0096135

Autore

Sabbah, Claude

Titolo

Introduction to Stokes structures / Claude Sabbah

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : Springer, 2013

Titolo uniforme

Introduction to Stokes structures

Descrizione fisica

XIV, 249 p. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

35A27 - Microlocal methods and methods of sheaf theory and homological algebra applied to PDEs [MSC 2020]

34M40 - Stokes phenomena and connection problems (linear and nonlinear) for ordinary differential equations in the complex domain [MSC 2020]

32C38 - Sheaves of differential operators and their modules, $D$-modules [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00266076

Autore

Sneed, Joseph D.

Titolo

The Logical Structure of Mathematical Physics / Joseph D. Sneed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht, : D. Reidel, 1971

Descrizione fisica

xvi, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

00A79 (77-XX) - Physics [MSC 2020]

03-XX - Mathematical logic and foundations [MSC 2020]

03A05 - Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations [MSC 2020]

03Bxx - General logic [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

This book is about scientific theories of a particular kind - theories of mathematical physics. Examples of such theories are classical and relativisĀ­ tic particle mechanics, classical electrodynamics, classical thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, hydrodynamics, and quantum mechanics. Roughly, these are theories in which a certain mathematical structure is employed to make statements about some fragment of the world. Most of the book is simply an elaboration of this rough characterization of theories of mathematical physics. It is argued that each theory of mathematical physics has associated with it a certain characteristic mathematical strucĀ­ ture. This structure may be used in a variety of ways to make empirical claims about putative applications of the theory. Typically - though not necessarily - the way this structure is used in making such claims requires that certain elements in the structure play essentially different roles. Some playa "theoretical" role; others playa "non-theoretical" role. For example, in classical particle mechanics, mass and force playa theoretical role while position plays a non-theoretical role. Some attention is given to showing how this distinction can be drawn and describing precisely the way in which the theoretical and non-theoretical elements function in the claims of the theory. An attempt is made to say, rather precisely, what a theory of mathematical physics is and how you tell one such theory from anothe-



what the identity conditions for these theories are.