Classical Dynamical Systems
Walter Thirring - Classical Dynamical Systems
Published: 1983-06-06 | ISBN: 0387814965, 3211814965 | PDF | 258 pages | 34 MB
This textbook presents mathematical physics in its chronological order. It originated in a four-semester course I offered to both mathematicians and physicists, who were only required to have taken the conventional introductory courses. In order to be able to cover a suitable amount of advanced material for graduate students, it was necessary to make a careful selection of topics. I decided to cover only those subjects in which one can work from the basic laws to derive physically relevant results with full mathematical rigor. Models which are not based on realistic physical laws can at most serve as illustrations of mathematical theorems, and theories whose predictions are only related to the basic principles through some uncontrollable approximation have been omitted.