TY - BOOK ID - 77945202 TI - Noncommutative geometry and physics 3 PY - 2012 SN - 1299462529 981442501X 9789814425018 9789814425001 9814425001 PB - Singapore London World Scientific DB - UniCat KW - Noncommutative differential geometry KW - Mathematical physics KW - K-theory KW - D-branes KW - Dirichlet p-branes KW - Branes KW - Differential geometry, Noncommutative KW - Geometry, Noncommutative differential KW - Non-commutative differential geometry KW - Infinite-dimensional manifolds KW - Operator algebras UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77945202 AB - Noncommutative differential geometry is a novel approach to geometry, aimed in part at applications in physics. It was founded in the early eighties by the 1982 Fields Medalist Alain Connes on the basis of his fundamental works in operator algebras. It is now a very active branch of mathematics with actual and potential applications to a variety of domains in physics ranging from solid state to quantization of gravity. The strategy is to formulate usual differential geometry in a somewhat unusual manner, using in particular operator algebras and related concepts, so as to be able to plug in no ER -