| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 102 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Witten on Mathematics and Physics -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Our Examples -- 1.2 The Ising Model in Two Dimensions: An Identity in a Manifold Presentation of Profiles -- 1.3 Dedekind-Weber -- 1.4 The Stability of Matter -- 1.5 Packaging Functions, Riemann Zeta Function -- Appendix -- A.1 Subheads of Dyson and Lenardś 1967-1968 Papers on the Stability of Matter -- A.2 The ̀̀Numbered ́́Flow of Theorems and Lemmas of the Dyson-Lenard Proof -- A.2.1 Theorems -- A.2.2 Lemmas |
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A.3 The Flow of the Dyson-Lenard Proof, as Lemmas Hanging from a Tree of Theorems -- A.4 The Structure of Lieb and Thirringś Argument in ̀̀Bound for the Kinetic Energy of Fermions Which Proves the Stability of ... -- A.5 Subheads and Subtopics of C.N. Yang, ̀̀The Spontaneous Magnetization [M] of a Two-Dimensional Ising Model ́́(1952) -- Chapter 2: Why Mathematical Physics? -- 2.1 The Big Ideas -- 2.2 Ising in Two Dimensions: An Identity in a Manifold Presentation of Profiles -- 2.3 Ising Susceptibility -- 2.4 Whereś the Physics? -- 2.5 Dedekind-Weber and Reciprocity |
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Chapter 3: Learning from Newton -- 3.1 Lessons from Newton -- 3.2 Creativity -- 3.3 Mathematical Physics -- 3.4 Influence -- 3.5 The Apocalypse -- Chapter 4: Primes and Particles -- 4.1 The Thermodynamics and Music of the Numbers -- 4.2 A Potted History -- 4.3 Symmetry and Orderliness -- 4.4 Coherence -- 4.5 Decomposition -- 4.6 Hierarchy -- 4.7 Adding-Up and Linearity -- 4.8 Divisibility -- Chapter 5: So Far and in Prospect -- 5.1 Kinship and Particles -- 5.2 Primes and Particles -- 5.3 Effective Field Theory -- 5.4 Packaging Functions Connecting Spectra to Surprising Symmetries |
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7.4 Manifold Perspectives or Profiles -- 7.5 Layers -- 7.6 Fermions -- 7.7 A Concrete Realization of the Dedekind-Weber Program -- 7.8 Another Multiplicity -- Chapter 8: Legerdemain in Mathematical Physics: Structure, ̀̀Tricks, ́́and Lacunae in Derivations of the Partition Function of... -- 8.1 Examples -- 8.2 The Two-Dimensional Ising Model -- 8.2.1 The Meaning of the Numbers -- 8.2.2 An Amazing Invention -- 8.2.3 Employing a Device of the Past -- 8.2.4 Where Did That Come From? -- 8.2.5 ̀̀A Useful Identity, Easily Seen ́́ -- 8.2.6 Signposting Along the Way |
| Summary |
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 such effectiveness, and the power of rigorous mathematical physics. Newton is our original model, with Galileo earlier suggesting that mathematics is the language of Nature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 6, 2024) |
| Subject |
Mathematical physics.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031497766 |
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3031497767 |
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