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Electricity and Magnetism for Mathematicians
A Guided Path from Maxwell's Equations to Yang–Mills
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- English
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eBook - PDF
Electricity and Magnetism for Mathematicians
A Guided Path from Maxwell's Equations to Yang–Mills
About this book
This text is an introduction to some of the mathematical wonders of Maxwell's equations. These equations led to the prediction of radio waves, the realization that light is a type of electromagnetic wave, and the discovery of the special theory of relativity. In fact, almost all current descriptions of the fundamental laws of the universe can be viewed as deep generalizations of Maxwell's equations. Even more surprising is that these equations and their generalizations have led to some of the most important mathematical discoveries of the past thirty years. It seems that the mathematics behind Maxwell's equations is endless. The goal of this book is to explain to mathematicians the underlying physics behind electricity and magnetism and to show their connections to mathematics. Starting with Maxwell's equations, the reader is led to such topics as the special theory of relativity, differential forms, quantum mechanics, manifolds, tangent bundles, connections, and curvature.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of symbols
- Acknowledgments
- 1 A Brief History
- 2 Maxwell's Equations
- 3 Electromagnetic Waves
- 4 Special Relativity
- 5 Mechanics and Maxwell's Equations
- 6 Mechanics, Lagrangians, and the Calculus of Variations
- 7 Potentials
- 8 Lagrangians and Electromagnetic Forces
- 9 Differential Forms
- 10 The Hodge Operator
- 11 The Electromagnetic Two-Form
- 12 Some Mathematics Needed for Quantum Mechanics
- 13 Some Quantum Mechanical Thinking
- 14 Quantum Mechanics of Harmonic Oscillators
- 15 Quantizing Maxwell's Equations
- 16 Manifolds
- 17 Vector Bundles
- 18 Connections
- 19 Curvature
- 20 Maxwell via Connections and Curvature
- 21 The Lagrangian Machine, Yang-Mills, and Other Forces
- Bibliography
- Index
- Color Plates
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