Time Poincar ̌Seminar 2010 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Duplantier, Bertrand. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Springer Basel : Imprint: Birkhũser, 2013.
• Series: Progress in Mathematical Physics ; 63
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Differentiable dynamical systems.; Distribution (Probability theory).; Quantum theory.; Mechanics.; Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.; Mathematical Physics.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Quantum Physics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0359-5

This eleventh volume in the Poincar ̌Seminar Series presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the concept of Time, which poses some of the most challenging questions in science. Five articles, written by the Fields medalist C. Villani, the two outstanding theoretical physicists T. Damour and C. J...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Time and Relativity, Thibault Damour
• (Ir)reversibility and Entropy, Cďric Villani
• (Ir)rv̌ersibilit ̌et entropie, Cďric Villani
• Equalities and Inequalities: Irreversibility and the Second Law of Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale, Christopher Jarzynski
• Time Measurement in the XXIst Century, Christophe Salomon
• Time<U+0019>s Arrow and Eddington<U+0019>s Challenge, Huw Price
• Image of Time<U+0019>s Irreversibility, Catherine de Mitry
• Image de l'irrv̌ersibilit ̌du Temps, Catherine de Mitry.