- Covers mathematical structures that recently have gained prominence in physics
- Provides a tutorial approach that will facilitate its use by graduate students and newcomers to the field
- Features unrivalled comprehensiveness with close to 1,000 pages of material
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This volume provides a series of tutorials on mathematical structures which recently have gained prominence in physics, ranging from quantum foundations, via quantum information, to quantum gravity. These include the theory of monoidal categories and corresponding graphical calculi, Girard’s linear logic, Scott domains, lambda calculus and corresponding logics for typing, topos theory, and more general process structures. Most of these structures are very prominent in computer science; the chapters here are tailored towards an audience of physicists.
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Introduction to Categories and Categorical Logic
Pages 3-94
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Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone
Pages 95-172
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Categories for the Practising Physicist
Pages 173-286
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A Survey of Graphical Languages for Monoidal Categories
Pages 289-355
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Geometry of Interaction and the Dynamics of Proof Reduction: A Tutorial
Pages 357-417
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- New Structures for Physics
- Editors
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- Bob Coecke
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Physics
- Series Volume
- 813
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-12821-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-12821-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-12820-2
- Series ISSN
- 0075-8450
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 1031
- Topics
