Clifford Numbers and Spinors / Edition 1

by Marcel Riesz, E.F. Bolinder, P. Lounesto

Overview

Marcellliesz's lectures delivered on October 1957 -January 1958 at the University of Maryland, College Park, have been previously published only infor­ mally as a manuscript entitled CLIFFORD NUMBERS AND SPINORS (Chap­ ters I - IV). As the title says, the lecture notes consist of four Chapters I, II, III and IV. However, in the preface of the lecture notes lliesz refers to Chapters V and VI which he could not finish. Chapter VI is mentioned on pages 1, 3, 16, 38 and 156, which makes it plausible that lliesz was well aware of what he was going to include in the final missing chapters. The present book makes lliesz's classic lecture notes generally available to a wider audience and tries somewhat to fill in one of the last missing chapters. This book also tries to evaluate lliesz's influence on the present research on Clifford algebras and draws special attention to lliesz's contributions in this field - often misunderstood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048142798
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/09/2010
Series:	Fundamental Theories of Physics , #54
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Lecture Series Clifford Numbers and Spinors given by Professor Marcel Riesz October 1957 — January 1958.- Marcel Riesz’s Lecture Notes on Clifford Algebra dictated to E. Folke Bolinder, April 1959.- Marcel Riesz’s Work on Clifford Algebras.

Editorial Reviews

Contains a previously unpublished facsimile reproduction of Marcel Riesz's notes of a set of lectures he delivered at the University of Maryland, College Park, from October 1957 to January 1958. This seminal material, which contributed greatly to the start of modern research on Clifford algebras, is supplemented by notes which Riesz dictated the following year and which were intended to be a fifth chapter in his lecture notes. A review by Lounesto puts Riesz's work on Clifford algebras in historical perspective. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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