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- Chicago Lectures in Physics
2015
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"A remarkable achievement . . . an informing sight of the sort of mathematics that underpins much of the present day research in theoretical physics." —C. J. Isham, Contemporary PhysicsMathematical Physics is an introduction to such basic mathematical structures as groups, vector spaces, topological spaces, measure spaces, and Hilbert space. Geroch uses category theory to emphasize both the interrelationships among different stru...
2013
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"One of the few books that treats the foundations of the theory of relativity seriously and in elaborate detail, at the non-specialist level." — NatureFrom A to B may not seem a great distance to travel, but, as Robert Geroch demonstrates in his conversational style, our perception of distance is always relative to our position in space. For persons situated outside the speculative realms of physics and mathematics, Geroch's tour from A to...
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