Frontiers in number theory, physics, and geometry / Pierre Cartier ... [and others] (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cartier, P. (Pierre)

Centre de physique des Houches.

Class of 1939 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Random matrices--Congresses.

Random matrices.

Functions, Zeta--Congresses.

Functions, Zeta.

Differentiable dynamical systems--Congresses.

Differentiable dynamical systems.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2006-

Summary:

The relation between mathematics and physics has a long history, in which the role of number theory and of other more abstract parts of mathematics has recently become more prominent. More than ten years after a first meeting in 1989 between number theorists and physicists at the Centre de Physique des Houches, a second 2-week event focused on the broader interface of number theory, geometry, and physics. This book is the result of that exciting meeting, and collects, in 2 volumes, extended versions of the&lecture courses, followed by&shorter texts on special topics, of eminent mathematicians and physicists. The present volume has three parts: Random matrices, Zeta functions, Dynamical systems. The companion volume is subtitled: On Conformal Field Theories, Discrete Groups and Renormalization and will be published in 2006 (Springer, 3-540-30307-3).

Contents:

1. On random matrices, zeta functions, and dynamical systems

2. On conformal field theories, discrete groups and renormalization.

Notes:

"...[P]resents, together with a forthcoming second volume, most of the courses and seminars delivered...at the Centre de Physique des Houches in [France] March 9-21, 2003"--P. [v].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1939 Fund.

ISBN:

3540231897

OCLC:

63197187