Quantum Calculus

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-387-95341-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 112 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 201 g

Reihe: Universitext

In one sentence, quantum calculus is the ordinary calculus without taking limits. This undergraduate text develops two types of quantum calculi, the q-calculus and the h-calculus. As this book develops quantum calculus along the lines of traditional calculus, we discover, with a remarkable inevitability, many important notions and results of classical mathematics. This book is written at the level of a first course in calculus and linear algebra and is aimed at undergraduate and beginning graduate students in mathematics, computer science, and physics. It is based on lectures and seminars given by the second author over the last few years at MIT.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheung, Pokman

Kac, Victor

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis Elementare Analysis und Allgemeine Begriffe
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Operations Research Graphentheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 q-Derivative and h-Derivative.- 2 Generalized Taylor’s Formula for Polynomials.- 3 q-Analogue of (x &t- a)n, n an Integer, and q-Derivatives of Binomials.- 4 q-Taylor’s Formula for Polynomials.- 5 Gauss’s Binomial Formula and a Noncommutative Bino-mial Formula.- 6 Properties of q-Binomial Coefficients.- 7 q-Binomial Coefficients and Linear Algebra over Finite Fields.- 8 q-Taylor’s Formula for Formal Power Series and Heine’s Binomial Formula.- 9 Two Euler’s Identities and Two q-Exponential Functions.- 10 q-Trigonometrie Functions.- 11 Jacobi’s Triple Product Identity.- 12 Classical Partition Function and Euler’s Product Formula.- 13 q-Hypergeometric Functions and Heine’s Formula.- 14 More on Heine’s Formula and the General Binomial.- 15 Ramanujan Product Formula.- 16 Explicit Formulas for Sums of Two and of Four Squares.- 17 Explicit Formulas for Sums of Two and of Four Triangul?r Numbers.- 18 q-Antiderivative.- 19 Jackson Integral.- 20 Fundamental Theorem of q-Calculus and Integration by Parts.- 21 q-Gamma and q-Beta Functions.- 22 h-Derivative and h-Integral.- 23 Bernoulli Polynomials and Bernoulli Numbers.- 24 Sums of Powers.- 25 Euler-Maclaurin Formula.- 26 Symmetrie Quantum Calculus.- Literature.