On Some Recent Interactions Between Mathematics and Physics

DOI10.4153/CMB-1985-016-3zbMath0569.58019WikidataQ56227753 ScholiaQ56227753MaRDI QIDQ3685718

Raoul Bott

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Canadian Mathematical Bulletin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4153/cmb-1985-016-3

zbMATH Keywords

Maxwell's equations; Hamilton's principle; Yang-Mills fields; classical dynamics; Yang-Mills equations; concept of gravity; Einstein's gravitational equations; mathematics physics interactions; topology and geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53A45: Differential geometric aspects in vector and tensor analysis

01A65: Development of contemporary mathematics

81T08: Constructive quantum field theory

83C05: Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

37J99: Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems

70H25: Hamilton's principle

78A25: Electromagnetic theory (general)

54-03: History of general topology

58-03: History of global analysis

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