Primes and Particles (PDF)

Name: Primes and Particles
Brand: Springer International Publishing
SKU: 152921607
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Mathematics, Mathematical Physics, Physics (Sprache: Englisch)

Autor: Martin H. Krieger

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Many philosophers, physicists, and mathematicians have wondered about the remarkable relationship between mathematics with its abstract, pure, independent structures on one side, and the wilderness of natural phenomena on the other. Famously, Wigner found the "effectiveness" of mathematics in defining and supporting physical theories to be unreasonable, for how incredibly well it worked. Why, in fact, should these mathematical structures be so well-fitting, and even heuristic in the scientific exploration and discovery of nature? This book argues that the effectiveness of mathematics in physics is reasonable. The author builds on useful analogies of prime numbers and elementary particles, elementary structure kinship and the structure of systems of particles, spectra and symmetries, and for example, mathematical limits and physical situations. The two-dimensional Ising model of a permanent magnet and the proofs of the stability of everyday matter exemplify sucheffectiveness, and the power of rigorous mathematical physics. Newton is our original model, with Galileo earlier suggesting that mathematics is the language of Nature.

Autoren-Porträt von Martin H. Krieger

Martin H. Krieger was trained as an experimental physicist at Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Krieger has taught in policy and planning and management at the University of California (Berkeley), Minnesota (Twin-Cities), MIT, University of Southern California, and University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the National Humanities Center. Krieger is professor emeritus at the University of Southern California. Primes and Particles is his twelfth book. His earlier books include Doing Physics (Indiana, 1992, 2012), Constitutions of Matter (Chicago, 1996), and Doing Mathematics (World Scientific, 2003, 2015).