Overview
- A unique collection of research contributions by renowned experts in mathematics and physics
- Dedicated to Nobel laureate C. N. Yang for his 100th birthday
- Includes historical anecdotes of C. N. Yang
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Fittingly, the contributions to this volume range from experimental physics to pure mathematics, via mathematical physics. On the physics side, the contributions are from Sir Anthony Leggett (Nobel 2003), Jian-Wei Pan (Willis E. Lamb Award 2018), Alexander Polyakov (Breakthrough Prize 2013), Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel 1999), Frank Wilczek (Nobel 2004), Qikun Xue (Fritz London Prize 2020), and Zhongxian Zhao (Bernd T. Matthias Prize 2015), covering an array of topics from superconductivity to the foundations of quantum mechanics. In mathematical physics there are contributions by Sir Roger Penrose (Nobel 2022) and Edward Witten (Fields Medal 1990) on quantum twistors and quantum field theory, respectively. On the mathematics side, the contributions by Vladimir Drinfeld (Fields Medal 1990), Louis Kauffman (Wiener Gold Medal 2014), and Yuri Manin (Cantor Medal 2002) offer novel ideas from knot theory to arithmetic geometry.
Inspired by the original ideas of C. N. Yang, this unique collection of papers b masters of physics and mathematics provides, at the highest level, contemporary research directions for graduate students and experts alike.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Yang-Hui He is a Fellow of the London Institute, Professor of Mathematics at City, University of London, Tutor in Mathematics at Merton College, Oxford, and Chang-Jiang Chair of Physics at Nankai University in China. He obtained his BA at Princeton (summa cum laude, Shenstone Prize and Kusaka Prize), MA at Cambridge (Distinction, Tripos), and PhD at MIT. After a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania, he joined Oxford as the FitzJames Fellow and an STFC Advanced Fellow. He works at the interface of string theory, algebraic and combinatorial geometry, and machine learning; he is also a keen public communicator of mathematics and physics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dialogues Between Physics and Mathematics
Book Subtitle: C. N. Yang at 100
Editors: Mo-Lin Ge, Yang-Hui He
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17523-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17522-0Published: 11 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17525-1Published: 11 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-17523-7Published: 10 December 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 298
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Mathematical Physics, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Topology, Algebraic Geometry, Category Theory, Homological Algebra, Quantum Physics