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Introduction to Differential Geometry
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ISBN: 1400877865 0691079838 0691627460 9781400877867 9780691627465 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Book 3 in the Princeton Mathematical Series. Originally published in 1950.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Tensors, relativity, and cosmology
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ISBN: 0128034017 0128033975 Year: 2015 Publisher: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : Academic Press,

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Tensors, Relativity, and Cosmology, Second Edition, combines relativity, astrophysics, and cosmology in a single volume, providing a simplified introduction to each subject that is followed by detailed mathematical derivations. The book includes a section on general relativity that gives the case for a curved space-time, presents the mathematical background (tensor calculus, Riemannian geometry), discusses the Einstein equation and its solutions (including black holes and Penrose processes), and considers the energy-momentum tensor for various solutions. In addition, a section on relativi


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Differential geometry and kinematics of continua
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ISBN: 9814616044 9789814616041 9789814616034 9814616036 Year: 2015 Publisher: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.,

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This book provides definitions and mathematical derivations of fundamental relationships of tensor analysis encountered in nonlinear continuum mechanics and continuum physics, with a focus on finite deformation kinematics and classical differential geometry. Of particular interest are anholonomic aspects arising from a multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient into two terms, neither of which in isolation necessarily obeys the integrability conditions satisfied by the gradient of a smooth vector field. The concise format emphasizes clarity and ease of reference, and detailed ste


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Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective : A Corpus-Based Study
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ISBN: 9783662463673 3662463660 9783662463666 3662463679 Year: 2015 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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This book focuses on the structural diversity, semantic variability, case choice, stylistic characteristics and diachronic distribution of English absolute clauses. The syntactic roles assumed by absolute clauses in the traditional sense can be categorized into clausal adjuncts, attendant circumstances and appositives. These three types of function correspond to the three hypotactic expansions in the relation system of clause complexes in Systemic Functional Linguistics, i.e., elaboration, extension and enhancement. This research, therefore, redefines absolute clauses in the framework of SFL and proposes four syntactic types of absolute clauses: absolute paratactic clauses (elaboration), absolute hypotactic clauses (extension and enhancement), absolute projected clauses (fact and act) and absolute embedded clauses (subject). Based on the Brown family corpora, BNC and COHA, this research finds that different function types of absolute clauses differ in terms of their stylistic and diachronic distributions, and both nominative and accusative cases are acceptable.


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Tensor categories and endomorphisms of von Neumann algebras : with applications to quantum field theory
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ISBN: 9783319143019 331914300X 9783319143002 3319143018 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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C* tensor categories are a point of contact where Operator Algebras and Quantum Field Theory meet. They are the underlying unifying concept for homomorphisms of (properly infinite) von Neumann algebras and representations of quantum observables. The present introductory text reviews the basic notions and their cross-relations in different contexts. The focus is on Q-systems that serve as complete invariants, both for subfactors and for extensions of quantum field theory models. It proceeds with various operations on Q-systems (several decompositions, the mirror Q-system, braided product, centre and full centre of Q-systems) some of which are defined only in the presence of a braiding. The last chapter gives a brief exposition of the relevance of the mathematical structures presented in the main body for applications in Quantum Field Theory (in particular two-dimensional Conformal Field Theory, also with boundaries or defects).


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Visualization and Processing of Higher Order Descriptors for Multi-Valued Data
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ISBN: 9783319150901 3319150898 9783319150895 3319150901 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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Modern imaging techniques and computational simulations yield complex multi-valued data that require higher-order mathematical descriptors. This book addresses topics of importance when dealing with such data, including frameworks for image processing, visualization, and statistical analysis of higher-order descriptors. It also provides examples of the successful use of higher-order descriptors in specific applications and a glimpse of the next generation of diffusion MRI. To do so, it combines contributions on new developments, current challenges in this area, and state-of-the-art surveys.   Compared to the increasing importance of higher-order descriptors in a range of applications, tools for analysis and processing are still relatively hard to come by. Even though application areas such as medical imaging, fluid dynamics, and structural mechanics are very different in nature they face many shared challenges. This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on this topic with contributions from key researchers in disciplines ranging from visualization and image processing to applications. It is based on the 5th Dagstuhl seminar on Visualization and Processing of Higher Order Descriptors for Multi-Valued Data.   This book will appeal to scientists who are working to develop new analysis methods in the areas of image processing and visualization, as well as those who work with applications that generate higher-order data or could benefit from higher-order models and are searching for novel analytical tools.


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Diseases of poverty
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ISBN: 1611687535 9781611687538 9781611687514 1611687519 9781611687521 1611687527 1336029811 9781336029811 Year: 2015 Publisher: Hanover, New Hampshire

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Comprehensive review of diseases of poverty and public health strategies to combat them


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Complicated presence : Heidegger and the postmetaphysical unity of being
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ISBN: 1438456506 9781438456508 9781438456492 1438456492 Year: 2015 Publisher: Albany, [New York] : SUNY Press,

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From its Presocratic beginnings, Western philosophy concerned itself with a quest for unity both in terms of the systematization of knowledge and as a metaphysical search for a unity of being—two trends that can be regarded as converging and culminating in Hegel's system of absolute idealism. Since Hegel, however, the philosophical quest for unity has become increasingly problematic. Jussi Backman returns to that question in this book, examining the place of the unity of being in the work of Heidegger. Backman sketches a consistent picture of Heidegger as a thinker of unity who throughout his career in different ways attempted to come to terms with both Parmenides's and Aristotle's fundamental questions concerning the singularity or multiplicity of being—attempting to do so, however, in a "postmetaphysical" manner rooted in rather than above and beyond particular, situated beings. Through his analysis, Backman offers a new way of understanding the basic continuity of Heidegger's philosophical project and the interconnectedness of such key Heideggerian concepts as ecstatic temporality, the ontological difference, the turn (Kehre), the event (Ereignis), the fourfold (Geviert), and the analysis of modern technology.


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Descent in buildings
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ISBN: 1400874017 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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Descent in Buildings begins with the resolution of a major open question about the local structure of Bruhat-Tits buildings. The authors then put their algebraic solution into a geometric context by developing a general fixed point theory for groups acting on buildings of arbitrary type, giving necessary and sufficient conditions for the residues fixed by a group to form a kind of subbuilding or "form" of the original building. At the center of this theory is the notion of a Tits index, a combinatorial version of the notion of an index in the relative theory of algebraic groups. These results are combined at the end to show that every exceptional Bruhat-Tits building arises as a form of a "residually pseudo-split" Bruhat-Tits building. The book concludes with a display of the Tits indices associated with each of these exceptional forms.This is the third and final volume of a trilogy that began with Richard Weiss' The Structure of Spherical Buildings and The Structure of Affine Buildings.

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Buildings (Group theory) --- Combinatorial geometry. --- Geometric combinatorics --- Geometrical combinatorics --- Combinatorial analysis --- Discrete geometry --- Theory of buildings (Group theory) --- Tits's theory of buildings (Group theory) --- Linear algebraic groups --- Bruhat-Tits building. --- Clifford invariant. --- Coxeter diagram. --- Coxeter group. --- Coxeter system. --- Euclidean plane. --- Fundamental Theorem of Descent. --- Moufang building. --- Moufang condition. --- Moufang polygon. --- Moufang quadrangle. --- Moufang set. --- Moufang structure. --- Pfister form. --- Structure Theorem. --- Tits index. --- abelian group. --- absolute Coxeter diagram. --- absolute Coxeter system. --- absolute rank. --- affine building. --- algebraic group. --- anisotropic pseudo-quadratic space. --- anisotropic quadratic space. --- anti-isomorphism. --- apartment. --- arctic region. --- automorphism. --- bilinear form. --- biquaternion division algebra. --- building. --- canonical isomorphism. --- chamber. --- compatible representation. --- descent group. --- descent. --- discrete valuation. --- exceptional Moufang quadrangle. --- exceptional quadrangle. --- finite dimension. --- fixed point building. --- fixed point theory. --- gem. --- generalized quadrangle. --- hyperbolic plane. --- hyperbolic quadratic module. --- hyperbolic quadratic space. --- involutory set. --- isomorphism. --- isotropic quadratic space. --- length function. --- non-abelian group. --- parallel residues. --- polar space. --- projection map. --- proper indifferent set. --- proper involutory set. --- pseudo-quadratic space. --- pseudo-split building. --- quadratic form. --- quadratic module. --- quadratic space. --- quaternion division algebra. --- ramified quadrangle. --- ramified quaternion division algebra. --- ramified separable quadratic extension. --- relative Coxeter diagram. --- relative Coxeter group. --- relative Coxeter system. --- relative rank. --- residual quadratic spaces. --- residue. --- root group sequence. --- root. --- round quadratic space. --- scalar multiplication. --- semi-ramified quadrangle. --- separable quadratic extension. --- simplicial complex. --- special vertex. --- spherical building. --- split quadratic space. --- standard involution. --- subbuilding of split type. --- subbuilding. --- tamely ramified division algebra. --- thick building. --- thin T-building. --- trace map. --- trace. --- unramified quadrangle. --- unramified quadratic space. --- unramified quaternion division algebra. --- unramified separable quadratic extension. --- vector space. --- vertex. --- weak isomorphism. --- wild quadratic space.


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The road to relativity
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ISBN: 0691175810 9780691162539 9780691162539 0691162530 0691162530 9780691175812 9781400865765 140086576X Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton

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This richly annotated facsimile edition of "The Foundation of General Relativity" introduces a new generation of readers to Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation. Written in 1915, this remarkable document is a watershed in the history of physics and an enduring testament to the elegance and precision of Einstein's thought. Presented here is a beautiful facsimile of Einstein's original handwritten manuscript, along with its English translation and an insightful page-by-page commentary that places the work in historical and scientific context. Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn's concise introduction traces Einstein's intellectual odyssey from special to general relativity, and their essay "The Charm of a Manuscript" provides a delightful meditation on the varied afterlife of Einstein's text. Featuring a foreword by John Stachel, this handsome edition also includes a biographical glossary of the figures discussed in the book, a comprehensive bibliography, suggestions for further reading, and numerous photos and illustrations throughout.

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