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William E. Baylis
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Department of Physics, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
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Table of contents (33 papers)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xvii
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- Chris Doran, Anthony Lasenby, Stephen Gull
Pages 65-82
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- Stephen Gull, Chris Doran, Anthony Lasenby
Pages 83-94
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- Stephen Gull, Chris Doran, Anthony Lasenby
Pages 95-110
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- Stephen Gull, Chris Doran, Anthony Lasenby
Pages 111-127
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- Stephen Gull, Chris Doran, Anthony Lasenby
Pages 129-145
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- Anthony Lasenby, Stephen Gull, Chris Doran
Pages 147-169
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- Anthony Lasenby, Chris Doran, Stephen Gull
Pages 171-184
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- Chris Doran, Anthony Lasenby, Stephen Gull
Pages 185-195
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- Anthony Lasenby, Chris Doran, Stephen Gull
Pages 197-210
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- Chris Doran, Anthony Lasenby, Stephen Gull
Pages 211-222
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- Anthony Lasenby, Chris Doran, Stephen Gull
Pages 223-235
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About this book
This volume is an outgrowth of the 1995 Summer School on Theoretical Physics of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP), held in Banff, Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies, from July 30 to August 12,1995. The chapters, based on lectures given at the School, are designed to be tutorial in nature, and many include exercises to assist the learning process. Most lecturers gave three or four fifty-minute lectures aimed at relative novices in the field. More emphasis is therefore placed on pedagogy and establishing comprehension than on erudition and superior scholarship. Of course, new and exciting results are presented in applications of Clifford algebras, but in a coherent and user-friendly way to the nonspecialist. The subject area of the volume is Clifford algebra and its applications. Through the geometric language of the Clifford-algebra approach, many concepts in physics are clarified, united, and extended in new and sometimes surprising directions. In particular, the approach eliminates the formal gaps that traditionally separate clas sical, quantum, and relativistic physics. It thereby makes the study of physics more efficient and the research more penetrating, and it suggests resolutions to a major physics problem of the twentieth century, namely how to unite quantum theory and gravity. The term "geometric algebra" was used by Clifford himself, and David Hestenes has suggested its use in order to emphasize its wide applicability, and b& cause the developments by Clifford were themselves based heavily on previous work by Grassmann, Hamilton, Rodrigues, Gauss, and others.
Reviews
"Of interest due to the many provocative physical interpretations of quantum mechanics and gravitational theory suggested by the Clifford algebra approach to these theories."
—Mathematical Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Physics, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
William E. Baylis
