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Contact Geometry and Nonlinear Differential Equations (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,171
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Contact Geometry and Nonlinear Differential Equations (Hardcover): Alexei Kushner, Valentin Lychagin, Vladimir Rubtsov

Contact Geometry and Nonlinear Differential Equations (Hardcover)

Alexei Kushner, Valentin Lychagin, Vladimir Rubtsov

Series: Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications

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Methods from contact and symplectic geometry can be used to solve highly non-trivial nonlinear partial and ordinary differential equations without resorting to approximate numerical methods or algebraic computing software. This book explains how it's done. It combines the clarity and accessibility of an advanced textbook with the completeness of an encyclopedia. The basic ideas that Lie and Cartan developed at the end of the nineteenth century to transform solving a differential equation into a problem in geometry or algebra are here reworked in a novel and modern way. Differential equations are considered as a part of contact and symplectic geometry, so that all the machinery of Hodge-deRham calculus can be applied. In this way a wide class of equations can be tackled, including quasi-linear equations and Monge-Ampere equations (which play an important role in modern theoretical physics and meteorology).

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications
Release date: December 2006
First published: 2007
Authors: Alexei Kushner • Valentin Lychagin • Vladimir Rubtsov
Dimensions: 241 x 162 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-82476-7
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Geometry > Differential & Riemannian geometry
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LSN: 0-521-82476-1
Barcode: 9780521824767

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