Lectures in Mathematical Physics, Volume II

Very Good - Covers: Clean and bright white and red paper covers with minimal handling wear. Light shelf wear along the edges, including very faint edge crinkling/creasing visible on the red background section of the front panel margins. Spine: Solid, flat, and square. Structurally sound with no severe reading creases. Edges & Pages: Text block edges are clean and white. Internal pages are pristine, crisp, and unmarked. Inserts: Features the original "Textbooks with the compliments of W.A. Benjamin, Inc." publisher's packing list slip tucked loosely inside the front cover. For more information on condition. Please view all images. Additional images upon request. Vintage 1972 1st Edition 749 Pages Part of the respected Mathematics Lecture Note Series, this volume compiles advanced lectures by mathematician Robert Hermann during his tenure at Rutgers University. Volume II focuses on the deep geometric structures undergirding quantum theory and statistical physics. Core topics include an introduction to quantum mechanics, Dirac spaces and generalized functions, groups and their representations, the Feynman path-integral approach, scattering theory, statistical mechanics, and an introduction to the quantum theory of fields. It remains a vital reference work for mathematical physicists studying Lie algebras, differential geometry, and quantum field theory. Provenance Note Includes an original vintage promotional packing list/slip issued directly from the publisher, reading: "Textbooks with the compliments of W.A. Benjamin, Inc. Book Publishers, Reading, Massachusetts", identifying this copy as an official contemporary review or promotional copy. Vintage 1974 - 1st Edition. 291 Pages. Volume 10 in the MAA Studies in Mathematics series, edited by George B. Dantzig and B. Curtis Eaves. A collection of foundational papers in optimization theory by leading mathematicians of the era, including Kuhn, Edmonds, Fulkerson, Scarf, Shapley, Veinott, Wolfe, and others. Topics include Steiner’s problem, labeling methods, bottleneck extremes, cores and invariants, Markov decision processes, and decomposition programs. Published by the Mathematical Association of America; printed in the United States. Includes contributor list, full contents, and index.…