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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
    Publication Date: 01/02/1986
    ISBN13: 9783540160960, 978-3540160960
    ISBN10: 3540160965
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    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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