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Revision as of 17:43, 16 January 2009
- "Important investigations by physicists on the foundations of mechanics are at hand; I refer to the writings of Mach, Hertz, Boltzmann and Volkmann. It is therefore very desirable that the discussion of the foundations of mechanics be taken up by mathematicians also."
- David Hilbert (excerpt from problem #6 of his lecture "Mathematical Problems", delivered before the Second International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, 1900)
Here are details of mathematical tools that have applications in classical thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and computer simulation techniques.
General
- Clebsch-Gordan coefficients
- Euler angles
- Green's theorem
- Laplace's equation
- Lee-Yang circle theorem
- Linear algebra
- Liouville's theorem
- Lyapunov exponents
- Padé approximants
- Perron-Frobenius theorem
- Poincaré theorem
- Power series
- Predictor-corrector methods
- Random numbers
- Root finding
- Runge-Kutta method
- Spherical harmonics
- Stirling's approximation
- Taylor expansion
- Trotter formula
- Wigner D-matrix
- Wigner rotation matrices
Functions and distributions
- Bessel functions
- Dirac delta distribution
- Gamma function
- Gaussian distribution
- Heaviside step distribution
- Kronecker delta
- Poisson distribution
- Ramp function
Geometry
Integrals and quadrature
- Standard integrals
- Elliptic integrals
- Newton-Cotes formulas
- Gauss-Chebyshev quadrature
- Gauss-Legendre quadrature
Polynomials
Transforms
Computer assisted mathematics
- BLAS Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms
- CGAL - Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
- IMSL Numerical Libraries
- LAPACK - Linear Algebra PACKage
- ScaLAPACK (Scalable LAPACK)
- Magma
- Maple
- Mathematica
- Math Kernel Library
- MATLAB
- Maxima
- NAG Numerical Algorithms Group
- Numerical Recipes
- Octave
- QUADPACK
- SAGE Open Source Mathematics Software
- Scilab
Interesting reading
- Eugene P. Wigner "The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences", Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 13 pp. 1-14 (1960)
- David Ruelle "Is our mathematics natural? The case of equilibrium statistical mechanics", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 19 pp. 259-268 (1988)