Representation of Lie Groups and Special Functions: Volume 3: Classical and Quantum Groups and Special Functions

By A.U. Klimyk and N.Ya. Vilenkin

Book Overview

Onc service malhemalics has rendered Ihe "Et moil ...- si ravait au oomment en revcnir. je n'y serais point aU': ' human race. It has put common sense back whcre it belongs, on the topmost shelf next Iules Verne to the dUlty canister IabeUed 'discarded n- sense'. The series is divergent; therefore we may be Eric T. BeU able to do something with it. O. H eaviside Mathematics is a tool for thought, A highly necessary tool in a world where both feedback and non- linearities abound. Similarly, all kinds of parts of mathematics serve as tools for other pans and for other sciences. Applying a simple rewriting rule to the quote on the right above one finds such statements as: 'One service topology has rendered mathematical physics .. .'; 'One service logic has rendered com- puter science .. .'; 'One service category theory has rendered mathematics .. .'. All arguably true. And all statements obtainable this way form part of the raison d'are of this series.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 079231493X
• ISBN13: 9780792314936
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 634 Pages
• Weight: 2.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"