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Continuum mechanics and geometric integration theory.- Structure of continuum physics.- On differentiable spaces.- Cartesian closed categories and analysis of smooth maps.- to synthetic differential geometry, and a synthetic theory of dislocations.- Synthetic reasoning and variable sets.- Recent research on the foundations of thermodynamics.- Global and local versions of the second law of thermodynamics.- Thermodynamics and the hahn-banach theorem.- What is the length of a potato?.

Categories in Continuum Physics: Lectures Given at a Workshop Held at SUNY, Buffalo 1982

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      Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
      Published 1 February 1986
      ISBN-13 9783540160960
      978-3540160960
      ISBN-10 3540160965
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      Mathematics Algebraic topology Mathematical / Computational / Theoretical physics

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      Table of Contents
      Continuum mechanics and geometric integration theory.- Structure of continuum physics.- On differentiable spaces.- Cartesian closed categories and analysis of smooth maps.- to synthetic differential geometry, and a synthetic theory of dislocations.- Synthetic reasoning and variable sets.- Recent research on the foundations of thermodynamics.- Global and local versions of the second law of thermodynamics.- Thermodynamics and the hahn-banach theorem.- What is the length of a potato?.

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