Biochemistry of Lipids, Lipoproteins and Membranes, 4th edition (New Comprehensive Biochemistry) (New Comprehensive Biochemistry)

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The first edition of this book was published in 1985. The content of the 4th edition reflects the enormous advances that have occurred since that time in the field of lipid biochemistry. This publication is unique in that it represents a bridge between the superficial coverage of the lipid field found in basic biochemistry text books and the highly specialized material contained in scientific review articles and monographs. The book is not a collection of exhaustive reviews, but a current and readable summary of diverse aspects of lipids. It is intended as an advanced and up-to-date textbook for teachers and students who are familiar with the basic concepts of lipid biochemistry and will also serve as a general reference book for scientists studying lipids, lipoproteins and membranes.

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Mountain Meteorology: Fundamentals and Applications offers first an introduction to the basic principles and concepts of mountain meteorology, then goes on to discuss their application in natural resources management. It includes over two hundred beautiful, full-color photographs, figures, and diagrams, as well as observable indicators of atmospheric processes--such as winds, temperature, and clouds--to facilitate the recognition of weather systems and events for a variety of readers. It is ideal for those who spend time in or near mountains and whose daily activities are affected by weather. As a comprehensive work filled with diverse examples and colorful illustrations, it is essential for professionals, scholars, and students of meteorology.

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A Excellent, Updated View of Meteorology.......2002-07-03

This book is really much more than simply a discussion of mountain weather. This book introduces the layperson and professional alike to the complex interaction between terrain and the atmosphere, both on the global and regional scale. In a clean well written manner, with lots of informative graphics, Whiteman goes beyond many of the simplistic coffeetable books, but never leaves understanding and clarity behind.

This book goes a long way to introduce the public to a New Meteorology - one in which airflow is understood not to behave like water, but a new realization that even a simple breeze around a hill can exhibit complex eddys, counterflows, and dynamic reactions to the surface.

This work demonstrates the value of a Meteorology that combines a new geophysical understanding with real world applications in firefighting, pest control, environmental preservation, land management, and I dare say, field geology.

Very Useful Reference.......2002-05-16

This book is well written. It is a useful reference for those who forecast for mountainous locations. The book is organized in small, discrete sections without lots of unneeded derivations. Lots of useful graphics and illustrations make this one of the most used books on my shelf. It is also quite useful for teaching others how weather is modified by terrain.

Review of Mountain Meteorology.......2000-12-04

I am a professional Certified Consulting Meteorologist and I found this book exceptionally well written and informative. It covers a number of subtopics of interest to people who live, work or play in mountainous regions and who are interested in better understanding the unique meteorological phenomena observed in these areas. It is non mathematical but very descriptive and well illustrated with diagrams and photographs.

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This is a graduate-level text that systematically develops the foundations of the subject. Quantum groups (i.e. Hopf algebras) are treated as mathematical objects in their own right; basic properties and theorems are proven in detail from this standpoint, including the results underlying key applications. After formal definitions and basic theory, the book goes on to cover such topics as quantum enveloping algebras, matrix quantum groups, combinatorics, cross products of various kinds, the quantum double, the semiclassical theory of Poisson-Lie groups, the representation theory, braided groups and applications to q-deformed physics. The explicit proofs and a great many worked examples and exercises will allow readers to quickly pick up the techniques needed for working in this exciting new field.

Algebraic Foundations of Non-Commutative Differential Geometry and Quantum Groups (Lecture Notes in Physics , No 39)

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Algebraic Foundations of Non-Commutative Differential Geometry and Quantum Groups (Lecture Notes in Physics , No 39)
Ludwig Pittner
Manufacturer: Springer
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Quantum groups and quantum algebras as well as non-commutative differential geometry are important in mathematics and considered to be useful tools for model building in statistical and quantum physics. This book, addressing scientists and postgraduates, contains a detailed and rather complete presentation of the algebraic framework. Introductory chapters deal with background material such as Lie and Hopf superalgebras, Lie super-bialgebras, or formal power series. Great care was taken to present a reliable collection of formulae and to unify the notation, making this volume a useful work of reference for mathematicians and mathematical physicists.

Group Theoretical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

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Group Theoretical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
R. Mirman
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ASIN: 059534125X

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Quantum mechanics, its properties including wavefunctions, complex numbers and uncertainty, are necessary and completely reasonable and understandable, with no weirdness. Classical physics is impossible. Much uncertainty comes from Fourier analysis. Waves and particles and collapse of wavefunctions are meaningless. Their seeming appearance in analyzed. Reasons and limitations of superposition are considered. Gravitation is an example of nonlinearity. All objects interact so nonlinearity is universal. How quantum mechanics then fits in is shown. Dirac's equation comes from Poincaré group. Physics is necessarily impossible in any space but that with dimension 3+1. Spin-statistics is a property of rotation groups.

Quantum Field Theory Conformal Group Theory Conformal Field Theory: Mathematical and Conceptual Foundations Physical and Geometrical Applications

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Quantum Field Theory Conformal Group Theory Conformal Field Theory: Mathematical and Conceptual Foundations Physical and Geometrical Applications
R. Mirman
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ASIN: 0595336922

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The conformal group is the invariance group of geometry (which is not understood), the largest one. Physical applications are implied, as discussed, including reasons for interactions. The group structure as well as those of related groups are analyzed. An inhomogeneous group is a subgroup of a homogeneous one because of nonlinearities of the realization. Conservation of baryons (protons can't decay) is explained and proven. Reasons for various realizations, so matrix elements, of the Lorentz group given. The clearly relevant mass level formula is compared with experimental values. Questions, implications and possibilities, including for differential equations, are raised.

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Awkward..........2007-06-15

First published in 2001 and now republished, this book is completely different from what you would expect from a "normal" textbook on mathematical physics. It has more text than formulae and the text is more or less a soup of self-citations and filled with personal scientific innuendo. The author, for instance, does not believe in the vacuum being "filled" with virtual particles, notwithstanding the experimental evidence for it, such as the Casimir effect. He calles people who do "believe" it (as if it were religion) "fools". He does not provide alternatives, but merely states his disapproval.

The text does NOT cover quantum field theory (just some (nearly trivial) basics on the Fock space at the end of the book, which can be found in any more advanced text on quantum mechanics), the conformal group is discussed neatly but not completely satisfactorily, and conformal field theory is treated very poorly (if at all!). Ronald Mirman hammers on "physics respecting its geometry", but does not provide much mathematical background for it.

Furthermore, the author is an independent researcher, which is underlined by the fact, that he does not know what belongs to a modern education in physics and what does not. He, for example, writes that the value of group theory is underappriciated in theoretical physics, which is absolutely nonsense: mathematical physics, especially particle physics, is soaked to the bone with the representation theory of Lie algebras (and in fact would not exist fully without it, to be frank).

The first chapter contains the relevance of the conformal group, in which the author does not state its application in statistical physics and string theory (which - in an online article - he thinks is useless and wrong). In this book, he talks about scale invariance of complete systems (and the role of dilations) and the relation between accelerated observers and special conformal transformations, which is interesting but not backed up mathematically much. In the second chapter, the Möbius group is treated on a basic level - the transformation of special curves (intersections of planes and conical surfaces) under the PSL(2,C) group. A bit on the Clifford algebra is given as well, but not much (and it is completely useless in the text apart from mentioning that there are fermions and bosons obeying different algebras). The conformal group, its subgroups and "similar" groups (compact and noncompact versions of so(n,m) and their covers su(n,m)) are given, but this is hardly a plus, since it is either so easy that any undergraduate could do the calculations or it is not relevant. The final chapter is about conformal field theory, but not in the usual sense (see books by e.g. Di Francesco e.a., Ketov, Kaku, Hankel, etc. for that). Mirman tries to explain what fields are and why they are useful, and what conformal transformations might be used for, but does not do much with it. Then, there are two appendices, which are not interesting either (representations of the Lorentz group & what masses of particles "tell" us - sounds more like a crystal ball to me than science!).

Besides, he says that (a large part of) mathematical literature "tries to hide [its] worthlessness under a pile of esoteric, but meaningless, language", which is more a self-description than a specification of mathematics.

The printing inside the book is okay, except that occasionally he inserts a Maple code into the text, which does not help anything and destroys the typesetting. The cover looks much better on the picture of amazon. In reality, it is a scan of the original 2001 cover, which has then been streched for the new one (at least it looks like that has been done) and one can see individual pixels.

The price is okay, although for 15$ you can get much better pieces on mathematics and physics from Dover Publications! Or invest a bit more for QFT by Itzykson & Zuber (Dover) and a CFT book by one of the authors given above.

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Quantum Field Theory, Conformal Group Theory, Conformal Field Theory, Mathematical and Conceptual Foundations, Physical and Geometrical Applications
Vee Burke , and David M. Ackerman
Manufacturer: Nova Science Pub Inc
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Conformal groups illustrate and emphasize how rich group theory is, something usually not recognized, and they also emphasize how fundamental geometry is in physics (and conversely). Reasons, and implications for physics, are explored as a start to the study of the vast fields of mathematics and physics suggested and required. These groups have nonlinear transformations, ones with singularities. Other aspects also show richness beyond what is usually realized, giving possibilities of many new insights and applications, to physics, mathematics, group theory, geometry, (nonlinear) differential equations, special functions, and likely elsewhere, including optics, squeezing, quantum communication, quantum computation, cryptography, and so on. There are also suggestions about relations to the well-known elementary-particle mass-level formula, which is reviewed. And representations of the groups for dimension greater than 2 have Clifford algebras as entries in their matrices. The formalism developed for quantum field theory, as a foundation for the study of conformal field theory, itself has important applications. For example while the obvious reason that the proton cannot decay --- baryon number thus lepton number must be conserved --- is almost trivial, the formalism allows a mathematical proof. Other insights provided by this and the conformal group can also be seen. How much of physics does geometry (through its transformation group) determine? As we see, a very large part. Might the geometry in which physics takes place, in which we exist, completely determine the physics within it, and conversely? These studies are motivated by that, and so attempt to raise questions, to show possibilities, to stimulate. These subjects are indeed stimulating.

THEORY OF GROUPS IN CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM PHYSICS, VOLUME ONE: MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURES AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM THEORY.

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THEORY OF GROUPS IN CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM PHYSICS, VOLUME ONE: MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURES AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM THEORY.
Theo., and others. Kahan
Manufacturer: Oliver & Boyd
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O9J7ZQ

Theory of Groups in Classical and Quantum Physics; Volume 1: MathematicalStructures and the Foundations of Quantum Theory

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Theory of Groups in Classical and Quantum Physics; Volume 1: MathematicalStructures and the Foundations of Quantum Theory
Theo; Et. Al.; Translated By H. Ingram Kahan
Manufacturer: Publisher Unknown
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ASIN: B000VLBU3E

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Foundations of Quantum Group Theory
Shahn Majid
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: B000MV2E42

Lectures on tensor calculus and foundations of the special theory of relativity (Uppsala. University. Quantum Chemistry Group for Research in Atomic, Molecular and Solid-State Theory. [Publication])

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Lectures on tensor calculus and foundations of the special theory of relativity (Uppsala. University. Quantum Chemistry Group for Research in Atomic, Molecular and Solid-State Theory. [Publication])
Wolf-Dieter Held
Manufacturer: Uppsala University
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Mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics;: Lectures delivered at the University of Virginia, 1946-47

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Mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics;: Lectures delivered at the University of Virginia, 1946-47
E. J McShane
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