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::Here's a paper I'm sure you'll like: [http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0105155v4.pdf The octonions] [[User:YohanN7|YohanN7]] ([[User talk:YohanN7|talk]]) 02:43, 18 July 2014 (UTC) |
::Here's a paper I'm sure you'll like: [http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0105155v4.pdf The octonions] [[User:YohanN7|YohanN7]] ([[User talk:YohanN7|talk]]) 02:43, 18 July 2014 (UTC) |
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Hey Douchebag, thanks for simply deleting the section I created in that article. Next time you think about deleting someone's hard work, why don't you consider correcting it, starting a talk page entry to gather sources, or something like that. That page '''needs''' an effects section, so people can understand what gravitomagnetism does. I did your work for you and started a talk page entry instead of an edit war, even though I do actually have a source. |
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In short, next time consider not being a dick. [[User:Fresheneesz|Fresheneesz]] ([[User talk:Fresheneesz|talk]]) 20:08, 27 August 2014 (UTC) |
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References?
I noticed on a few occasions you mention your access to references may be limited. In the following I'm probably stating the obvious, and you're more than welcome to delete this thread, but in case it's useful...
Have you access to books on mathematics by Dover Publications? Many (not all) great works are published by them at a very affordable price (approx equivalent of £ 10 = US $ 16.64), about the same as a Schaum's outlines book. Some examples include
- Sergei Sobolev's book on partial differential equations [1],
- Maxwell's two-volume treatise on EM vol 1vol 2,
- Cartan's work on spinors (English translation),
- some of the references (Tensors, Differential Forms, and Variational Principles By David Lovelock, Hanno Rund, Tensor Calculus By J. L. Synge, A. Schild, Tensor Analysis on Manifolds By Richard L. Bishop, Samuel I. ) in the Ricci calculus and tensor articles,
- even Levi-Civita's work on tensor calculus.
(Unfortunately not all the classics seem to be available, e.g. Gibb's vector analysis, Schouten and Courant's treatise on Ricci calculus, Courant's Calculus and analysis, etc. which tend to get published in the high quality and ridiculously expensive Springer and Wiley or so on).
Two often good places to buy books online (at least in my experience) are abebooks or waterstones, rather than amazon, ebay, etc.
Best, M∧Ŝc2ħεИτlk 21:00, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you – this is very useful. These are prices that I can live with. I should start a list of "intended purchases". So far, I've only looked at the new book market, which is really silly of me. —Quondum 23:50, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
- Cool. You may also like:
- Kreyszig's Differential geometry,
- Flanders' Differential forms with application to the physical sciences,
- Rucker's Geometry, relativity, and the fourth dimension, (qualitative review like Penrose rather than a textbook)
- Pauli's Theory of relativity, (historically a standard reference, today the real drawback is his use of ict..., anyway covers SR and GR, including relativistic EM, some fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics),
- Tolman's Relativity, thermodynamics, and cosmology (similar to Pauli but more detail and better),
- March, Young, Sampanthar's The many body problem in quantum mechanics (from the 1960s, but good for historical perspective).
- Cool. You may also like:
Okay, I'm compiling a list below. —Quondum 04:56, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
- Sergei L. Sobolev, Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics: $19.95
- Tullio Levi-Civita, The Absolute Differential Calculus (Calculus of Tensors): $30.75 (paperback + ebook)
- Stephen Willard, General Topology: $24.95
- — other books (I haven't transcribed all those on tensors above yet)
- — to be compiled
Books status
- Have
- James Clark Maxwell (1891). A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Vol. Vol 1 (3rd ed.).
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has extra text (help) - James Clark Maxwell (1891). A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Vol. Vol 2 (3rd ed.).
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has extra text (help) - Élie Cartan (1966). The Theory of Spinors.
- Irving Kaplansky (1974). Linear Algebra and Geometry: A Second Course.
- Pertti Lounesto (2001). Clifford Algebras and Spinors (2nd ed.).
- Roger Penrose (2004). The Road to Reality.
- Leo Dorst; Daniel Fontijne; Stephen Mann (2007). Geometric Algebra for Computer Science.
- On order
JSTOR papers
Plenty of the important papers are only found at JSTOR. There you can read (all of?) them for free, only that you can have only three on your "shelf" at any one time. When you add an item to the shelf, it can be removed after 14 days. If you pay $20 per month, you can read as much as you want (don't know if they exclude much) + download 10 items per month. I think this is decent (provided you select the papers well of course). Think about 10 papers you really want. They'd probably be worth a $20 investment. Compare this to $100+ for a typical Springer GTM, which will refer you to the original papers anyway if you want the details. YohanN7 (talk) 17:52, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
- Don't I have to belong to a participating library/institution? —Quondum 18:18, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
- Yup, I guess so – but it's a start, and more than I've been doing... —Quondum 05:34, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
- That would be the time when you take up your wallet, and cough up $20. Disclaimer: I don't know how much, and what, is excluded from these deals. I'm usually reading somewhat aged classical papers. I'd not be able to understand highly specialized 2014 research papers anyway. YohanN7 (talk) 14:58, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
More refs
Hi Quondum, sorry to cut in randomly like this after such a long absence, I'll be back in business soon, but if it's ok to add more Dover refs in case you haven't seen them:
- a fantastic choice is Barut's Electrodynamics and Classical Theory of Fields & Particles. It covers relativistic mechanics, relativistic dynamics of fields, in each case in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism and uses the EM field as a prototype, also gets to the homogeneous/inhomogeneous Lorentz groups and spinors quickly, even includes the Dirac equation. Not an introductory book, it begins with the tensor formulation of SR (of course not a problem for us - we can cope with tensors now), and even develops a spinorial formulation of Maxwell's equations (yes - spinor indices and all). The book is very compact for the context it covers, and is very cheap. The typography is also very nice, sadly there are occasional printing errors (seen a few, usually obvious). Bought it recently - definitely worth every penny.
- a better reference to the many-particle theory would be Fetter and Walecka Quantum theory of many particle systems, this is a standard graduate-level ref on the topic, now in its 2nd edition. Bought this a while ago – worth it but not easy.
- another great book I still do not have, and hope to get soon, is Mattuck's Feynman diagrams in the many-body problem
- you may want to look at Borisenko, Tarapov Vector and Tensor Analysis with Applications, masterful development of vector and tensor analysis, from geometry to algebra, includes the dot and cross product not only in orthogonal coordinates but arbitrary coordinates, bought this a while ago. Unfortunately there are a few printing errors but you'll know them when you see them.
For non-Dover refs...
- You may also notice I had previous emphasis on a graduate-level QM book by Abers, although the content is generally good - I gave up on it since the section on RQM is so awful, I do not recommend it anymore...
- A far superior RQM and QFT book is Ohlsson's book, starts with RQM, goes onto QFT, covers most things/basically everything in each and the overlap at an introductory-level (late undergrad/early grad), a good start before you take on Steven Weinberg's standard 3-volume QFT books.
- A brilliant general QM book is the 2nd edition of Zettili, overall generalities, operators, Dirac notation, dynamical pictures, etc. it actually spans from the undergrad-early grad levels, only real drawback is the price.
I'll stop cluttering your page like this (I know - said this above), sorry about that, just thought to get these in at least, no more unless you ask. Best, M∧Ŝc2ħεИτlk 07:28, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
- Hi, welcome back. Thanks, I'll look through these for my next "shopping spree". Incidentally, I've been finding JSTOR doesn't seem to have much in maths and physics – perhaps I'm not searching correctly? —Quondum 14:46, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
- The priority would be Barut - absolutely reccomended.
- Sorry - I've never really used JSTOR so can't help... Here I just typed "physics" in the "add field" bar, with a concrete subject like "relativity" or "particle physics" in the top search bar, leaving everything else blank, in each case ended up with loads of random papers [2][3]. You may have tried this already though... M∧Ŝc2ħεИτlk 23:50, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Entropy
Hi, what do you meant with "..without more context so early in the lead, this could misleadingly imply a more direct connection than is the case: it depends on what else is kept constant" -what context are you missing exactly? Prokaryotes (talk) 17:12, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
- The bald statement "The entropy of a system increases or decreases with temperature" is confusing and apparently not generally true. Consider an ideal gas as an adiabatic process: it is an isentropic process, yet its temperature increases and decreases. (I'm no expert, but I cannot see how one could escape this conclusion.) —Quondum 17:28, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
- I changed the part to "Systems which are not isolated may decrease in entropy.". Prokaryotes (talk) 18:11, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
- Please keep in mind that the lead of an article is for introducing the concept, not for explaining details. —Quondum 19:34, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
- I changed the part to "Systems which are not isolated may decrease in entropy.". Prokaryotes (talk) 18:11, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
Bra-ket notation = square blocks
Hi Quondom. Haven't looked into this too much so thought you might be able to shine some light on it. After you changed the Bra–ket notation this morning the < and > symbols are showing as white boxes to me and at least a few others. Any idea why that might be? Thanks, Sam Walton (talk) 15:39, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
- Old computer with XP like me I suppose? See section 11.1 here: [4] YohanN7 (talk) 00:41, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
- (ec) I've used a "standard" template to produce the symbols. It uses mathematical Unicode symbols U+27E8 (MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET) and U+27E9 (MATHEMATICAL RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET). Wikipedia uses quite a lot of characters from the Unicode mathematical extension, so their use is pretty much a given. The {{math}} template then changes the font to serif. Browsers sometimes have fonts loaded that do not include all the math characters, and then a white square or similar might be displayed. I'd suggest loading/selecting a font to solve this. If you're missing some of the more recent Unicode characters, you'll probably be missing others. In general, I think the solution is to fix it at the browser rather than trying to use only only Unicode characters dating back to before say 2004. Try selecting Cambria as your browser's serif font. If it is a general pattern with many browsers that the default sans serif font has these characters but the serif font doesn't (though I'd be surprised), we could replace the math template with nowrap throughout – a simple global substitution. Which of the following can you see properly?
- ⟨φ|ψ⟩
- ⟨φ|ψ⟩
- —Quondum 00:58, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
- Unfortunately none of them. I did change to Cambria and refreshed. Think we have done this once before? I'll try to fiddle a bit with the fonts, but they are probably simply too old on my machine. YohanN7 (talk) 01:14, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
- Ouch. I wonder how prevalent this problem is? On XP you should be able to download and install updated fonts, but I have little experience with this. For the article concerned, we could switch to
<math>
, which will solve the problem for most people there at least. What do you think? —Quondum 03:03, 3 June 2014 (UTC)- Hmm, I don't see either of those. And I'm running Windows 7 actually, on Chrome. Just tested Firefox and that seems to work fine. Will investigate further... Sam Walton (talk) 06:03, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
- Ouch. I wonder how prevalent this problem is? On XP you should be able to download and install updated fonts, but I have little experience with this. For the article concerned, we could switch to
- Unfortunately none of them. I did change to Cambria and refreshed. Think we have done this once before? I'll try to fiddle a bit with the fonts, but they are probably simply too old on my machine. YohanN7 (talk) 01:14, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
?
Hi!
Do you know what M is up to these days?
Hasn't been around for some time... YohanN7 (talk) 01:31, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
- Nope, no idea. I've had no communication in the last two months. Perhaps Rschwieb might have an idea? —Quondum 01:44, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
And what about I M (Mr. Sunshine)? YohanN7 (talk) 19:35, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
- I have had no interaction that does not appear in his edit history. One would hope that recent political events didn't play a part in his retirement. —Quondum 19:59, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Journals
Hi Q!
I assume you have seen this: Wikipedia:Royal Society journals
I got free access and it's still possible to join the waiting list. Not all places were filled, so there's a fair chance they'll fill up to their original quota right away from the waiting list.
M & I M & R, if you happen to read this, why don't you grab the chance as well? YohanN7 (talk) 08:24, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
- I had seen it, but passed because I felt that there were many editors that would use the limited access to references far more intensively and beneficially than I would. I have not yet demonstrated (even to myself) that I source and reference material very effectively, though of course that may change when I actually get more than the very limited access to material that I have. I have applied for JSTOR access. —Quondum 03:55, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
- Here's a paper I'm sure you'll like: The octonions YohanN7 (talk) 02:43, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
Hey Douchebag, thanks for simply deleting the section I created in that article. Next time you think about deleting someone's hard work, why don't you consider correcting it, starting a talk page entry to gather sources, or something like that. That page needs an effects section, so people can understand what gravitomagnetism does. I did your work for you and started a talk page entry instead of an edit war, even though I do actually have a source.
In short, next time consider not being a dick. Fresheneesz (talk) 20:08, 27 August 2014 (UTC)