In the Fall I'll be starting teaching again, after a semester away on sabbatical and then enjoying teaching relief during my first semester at Penn. I'll be teaching a course that I truly love, and ...

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The aim of mathematical physics is to adapt concept and methods of pure mathematics to study physical problems. A student interested in mathematical physics may choose to have as a major for her/his ...

Dwight E. Neuenschwander: Tensor Calculus for Physics, Johns Hopkins University Press, November 2014, 248 S., geb., $45.00, ISBN: 9781421415659 Understanding tensors is essential for any physics ...

This is the first part of a two course graduate sequence in analytical methods to solve ordinary and partial differential equations of mathematical physics. Review of Advanced ODE’s including power ...

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At the frontiers of theoretical physics, many of the most popular ideas have one thing in common: they begin from a mathematical framework that seeks to explain more things than our currently ...

Modern mathematical physics was born from the attempts to gain mathematical understanding of quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. In those fields powerful new methods were developed around ...