Second Year Calculus - From Celestial Mechanics to Special Relativity (Paperback, 1st ed. 1991. Corr. 4th printing 2001)

Second Year Calculus: From Celestial Mechanics to Special Relativity covers multi-variable and vector calculus, emphasizing the historical physical problems which gave rise to the concepts of calculus. The book guides us from the birth of the mechanized view of the world in Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy in which mathematics becomes the ultimate tool for modelling physical reality, to the dawn of a radically new and often counter-intuitive age in Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity in which it is the mathematical model which suggests new aspects of that reality. The development of this process is discussed from the modern viewpoint of differential forms. Using this concept, the student learns to compute orbits and rocket trajectories, model flows and force fields, and derive the laws of electricity and magnetism. These exercises and observations of mathematical symmetry enable the student to better understand the interaction of physics and mathematics.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Readings in Mathematics
Release date:	March 2001
First published:	1991
Authors:	David M. Bressoud
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	404
Edition:	1st ed. 1991. Corr. 4th printing 2001
ISBN-13:	978-0-387-97606-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Calculus & mathematical analysis > General
LSN:	0-387-97606-X
Barcode:	9780387976068

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