1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451309703321

Autore

Stearns Peter N.

Titolo

Western civilization in world history / / Peter N. Stearns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-37475-5

1-281-10083-8

9786611100834

0-203-93009-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 p.)

Collana

Themes in world history

Classificazione

15.50

Disciplina

909/.09821

Soggetti

Civilization, Western - History

World history

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Western civ?; Part I: The Western civ tradition; Chapter 2 Why Western civ courses: The constraints of success; Chapter 3 The fall of Western civ, and why it still stands; Part II: Getting Western civilization started; Chapter 4 Defining civilizations; Chapter 5 When in the world is Western civilization?; Chapter 6 The West in the world; Part III: The rise of the West, 1450-1850; Chapter 7 Causes of a new global role; Chapter 8 Transformations of the West

Chapter 9 Where in the world was Western civilization?Part IV: The West in the contemporary world; Chapter 10 Western civilization and the industrial revolution; Chapter 11 Disruptions of the twentieth century; Chapter 12 The West in a globalized world; Epilogue: Western civilization and Western civ; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Western civilization and world history are often seen as different, or even mutually exclusive, routes into historical studies. This volume shows that they can be successfully linked, providing a tool to see each subject in the context of the other, identifying influences and connections.Western Civilization in World History takes up the recent debates about the merits of the well-established 'Western civ' approach



versus the newer field of world history. Peter N. Stearns outlines key aspects of Western civilization - often assumed rather than analyzed - and reviews them in

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996466524403316

Autore

Biane Philippe

Titolo

Quantum Potential Theory [[electronic resource] /] / by Philippe Biane, Luc Bouten, Fabio Cipriani, Norio Konno, Quanhua Xu ; edited by Uwe Franz, Michael Schuermann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2008

ISBN

3-540-69365-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 464 p. 18 illus.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 1954

Classificazione

MAT 310f

PHY 020f

SI 850

58B3481R6031C1253C21

Disciplina

515.96

Soggetti

Global analysis (Mathematics)

Manifolds (Mathematics)

Quantum physics

Quantum computers

Spintronics

Differential geometry

Potential theory (Mathematics)

Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds

Quantum Physics

Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics

Differential Geometry

Potential Theory

Greifswald (2007)

Kongress.

Greifswald <2007>

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

"This volume contains the revised and completed notes of lectures given at the school 'Quantum Potential Theory: Structure and Applications to Physics, ' held at the Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald from February 26 to March 10, 2007"--P. [4] of cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Potential Theory in Classical Probability -- to Random Walks on Noncommutative Spaces -- Interactions between Quantum Probability and Operator Space Theory -- Dirichlet Forms on Noncommutative Spaces -- Applications of Quantum Stochastic Processes in Quantum Optics -- Quantum Walks.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume contains the revised and completed notes of lectures given at the school "Quantum Potential Theory: Structure and Applications to Physics," held at the Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald from February 26 to March 10, 2007. Quantum potential theory studies noncommutative (or quantum) analogs of classical potential theory. These lectures provide an introduction to this theory, concentrating on probabilistic potential theory and it quantum analogs, i.e. quantum Markov processes and semigroups, quantum random walks, Dirichlet forms on C* and von Neumann algebras, and boundary theory. Applications to quantum physics, in particular the filtering problem in quantum optics, are also presented.