World Scientific Series in 20th Century Mathematics - Vol. 2
40 YEARS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
by L D Faddeev (St Petersburg, Russia)
This is a collection of Prof L D Faddeev's important lectures, papers and talks. Some of these have not been published before and some have, for the first time, been translated from Russian into English. The topics covered correspond to several distinctive and pioneering contributions of Prof Faddeev to modern mathematical physics: quantization of Yang–Mills and Einstein gravitational fields, soliton theory, the many-dimensional inverse problem in potential scattering, the Hamiltonian approach to anomalies, and the theory of quantum integrable models. There are also two papers on more general aspects of the interrelations between physics and mathematics as well as an autobiographical essay.
Contents:
- Perturbation Theory for Gauge-Invariant Fields
- The Feynman Integral
for Singular Lagrangians
- Covariant Quantization of the Gravitational Field
- Quantum Completely Integrable Models in Field Theory
- From Integrable Models to Conformal Field Theory via Quantum Groups
- Hamiltonian Approach to the Theory of Anomalies
- The Energy Problem in Einstein's Theory of Gravitation
- Lagrangian Mechanics in Invariant Form
- Einstein and Several Contemporary Tendencies in the Theory of Elementary Particles
- A Mathematician's View of the Development of Physics
- and other papers
Readership: Mathematical physicists and mathematicians.
"... recommended to all interested in modern mathematical physics."
"... I found this collection to be a very interesting one, and although it is not strictly a textbook or a monograph it can be a useful addition to one's library."
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Pub. date: Oct 1995 |
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