By J. B. Kuipers

ISBN-10: 0691058725

ISBN-13: 9780691058726

Ever because the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton brought quaternions within the 19th century--a feat he celebrated through carving the founding equations right into a stone bridge--mathematicians and engineers were eager about those mathematical gadgets. this present day, they're utilized in purposes as quite a few as describing the geometry of spacetime, guiding the gap go back and forth, and constructing laptop functions in digital truth. during this e-book, J. B. Kuipers introduces quaternions for scientists and engineers who've no longer encountered them earlier than and indicates how they are often utilized in quite a few sensible events.

The publication is essentially an exposition of the quaternion, a 4-tuple, and its fundamental software in a rotation operator. yet Kuipers additionally provides the extra traditional and general three x three (9-element) matrix rotation operator. those parallel shows enable the reader to pass judgement on which ways are greatest for particular functions. the quantity is split into 3 major elements. the hole chapters current introductory fabric and determine the book's terminology and notation. the subsequent half offers the mathematical houses of quaternions, together with quaternion algebra and geometry. It comprises extra complicated certain themes in round trigonometry, in addition to an creation to quaternion calculus and perturbation idea, required in lots of events related to dynamics and kinematics. within the ultimate part, Kuipers discusses cutting-edge purposes. He provides a six degree-of-freedom electromagnetic place and orientation transducer and concludes through discussing the pc photos important for the advance of purposes in digital truth.

By Gerard J. Murphy

ISBN-10: 0125113609

ISBN-13: 9780125113601

This ebook constitutes a primary- or second-year graduate path in operator conception. it's a box that has nice value for different parts of arithmetic and physics, resembling algebraic topology, differential geometry, and quantum mechanics. It assumes a easy wisdom in useful research yet no past acquaintance with operator idea is needed.

By Garret Sobczyk

ISBN-10: 0817683844

ISBN-13: 9780817683849

Modular quantity structures -- advanced and hyperbolic numbers -- Geometric algebra -- Vector areas and matrices -- Outer product and determinants -- platforms of linear equations -- Linear changes on R[n superscript] -- constitution of a linear operator -- Linear and bilinear varieties -- Hermitian internal product areas -- Geometry of relocating planes -- illustration of the symmetric crew -- Calculus on m-surfaces -- Differential geometry of curves -- Differential geometry of k-surfaces -- Mappings among surfaces -- Non-euclidean and projective geometries -- Lie teams and lie algebras

By David E. Evans, Masamichi Takesaki

ISBN-10: 0511662270

ISBN-13: 9780511662270

ISBN-10: 052136843X

ISBN-13: 9780521368438

Those volumes shape an authoritative assertion of the present nation of study in Operator Algebras. They include papers coming up from a year-long symposium held on the collage of Warwick. individuals contain many very recognized figures within the box.

By James Harvey Carruth, J. A. Hildebrant

ISBN-10: 0824717953

ISBN-13: 9780824717957

ISBN-10: 0824773209

ISBN-13: 9780824773205

By Armand Borel

By E. R Kolchin

ISBN-10: 0124176402

ISBN-13: 9780124176409

By Sergey Neshveyev

ISBN-10: 3540346708

ISBN-13: 9783540346708

ISBN-10: 3540346732

ISBN-13: 9783540346739

The ebook addresses mathematicians and physicists, together with graduate scholars, who're drawn to quantum dynamical platforms and functions of operator algebras and ergodic thought. it's the in basic terms monograph in this subject. even if the authors suppose a simple wisdom of operator algebras, they provide distinct definitions of the notions and often entire proofs of the consequences that are used.

By Sorin Dascalescu, Constantin Nastasescu, Serban Raianu

ISBN-10: 0585418896

ISBN-13: 9780585418896

ISBN-10: 0824704819

ISBN-13: 9780824704810

A reference and textbook operating via and summarizing key theories, issues, and appropriate good points within the algebraic houses concerning Hopf algebras. comprises in-depth assurance of simple techniques, periods, and the kinds, integrals, and coactions of those algebras. DLC: Hopf algebras.

By Stephen Berman, Paul Fendley, Yi-Zhi Huang, Kailash Misra, Brian Parshall

ISBN-10: 0821827162

ISBN-13: 9780821827161

ISBN-10: 1319981992

ISBN-13: 9781319981990

ISBN-10: 2141998921

ISBN-13: 9782141998927

ISBN-10: 2281996336

ISBN-13: 9782281996333

ISBN-10: 2719836656

ISBN-13: 9782719836651

ISBN-10: 3519841932

ISBN-13: 9783519841937

ISBN-10: 6319983833

ISBN-13: 9786319983838

ISBN-10: 8719873433

ISBN-13: 9788719873436

As a result of its many purposes to arithmetic and mathematical physics, the illustration concept of infinite-dimensional Lie and quantized enveloping algebras includes a tremendous sector of present learn. This quantity contains articles from the lawsuits of a world convention, ""Infinite-Dimensional Lie concept and Conformal box Theory"", held on the collage of Virginia. a number of the individuals to the amount are favourite researchers within the field.This convention supplied a chance for mathematicians and physicists to have interaction in an energetic examine zone of mutual curiosity. The talks taken with contemporary advancements within the illustration concept of affine, quantum affine, and prolonged affine Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras. in addition they highlighted purposes to conformal box idea, integrable and disordered platforms. the various articles are expository and obtainable to a large readership of mathematicians and physicists drawn to this quarter; others are learn articles which are acceptable for extra complicated readers