An Introduction to Twistor Theory - Second Edition

Tod, K.P.; Huggett, S. A.

ISBN 10: 0521451574 / ISBN 13: 9780521451574

Published by Cambridge Univ Press. Cambridge, UK. 1994. Second Edition--First Printing., 1994

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Book size about 6 by 9 inches with some 178 pages. Bound in slick glossy blue paper covered boards with white lettering. Book number 4 of the London Mathematical Society Student Texts. Very slightest wear. A clean and unmarked book. FINE Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Introduction to Twistor Theory - Second Edition
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Press. Cambridge, UK. 1994. Second Edition--First Printing.
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521451574
• ISBN 13: 9780521451574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • MATHEMATICS

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Synopsis

This book is an introduction to twistor theory and modern geometrical approaches to space-time structure at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level. It will be valuable also to the physicist as an introduction to some of the mathematics that has proved useful in these areas, and to the mathematician as an example of where sheaf cohomology and complex manifold theory can be used in physics.

Book Description

Evolving from graduate lectures given in London and Oxford, this introduction to twistor theory and modern geometrical approaches to space-time structure will provide graduate students with the basics of twistor theory, presupposing some knowledge of special relativity and differenttial geometry.