Solid state physics Quantum theory Chemical bonds SCIENCE Physics Condensed Matter Física do estado sólido Mecânica quântica But the core of the text is still the same. If you want a calculus textbook that does everything honestly but gently enough so that good first-year students can follow it, this is the one. Spivak lectured on elementary physics. [4] Spivak's book, Physics for Mathematicians: Mechanics I (published December 6, 2010), contains the material that these lectures stemmed from and more. [5] Spivak was also the designer of the MathTime Professional 2 fonts (which are widely used in academic publishing) [6] and the creator of Science International. [7] Writing [ edit ]

This third edition is better than the one I read. Spivak has added, in particular, a careful account of how one can deduce Kepler's laws of planetary motion from Newton's laws of physics. This was, of course, one of the first applications of the calculus, and it is still one of the most impressive ones. Its inclusion is a definite improvement. Beyond that, there are very few changes, mostly corrections of small mistakes. The suggested reading list has not, alas, been updated, with the result that it now has a slightly antiquarian flavor: some of the books are out of print, and some, like tables of integrals, are best replaced by appropriate software tools. Snippets of science from a goon". New Scientist. Vol.98, no.1352. Reed Business Information. April 7, 1983. His five-volume A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry (Publish or Perish Inc., 1970; 2nd ed., 1979; 3rd ed., 1999, revised 2005) is among his most influential and celebrated works. The distinctive pedagogical aim of the work, as stated in its preface, was to elucidate for graduate students the often obscure relationship between classical differential geometry—geometrically intuitive but imprecise—and its modern counterpart, replete with precise but unintuitive algebraic definitions. On several occasions, most prominently in Volume 2, Spivak "translates" the classical language that Gauss or Riemann would be familiar with to the abstract language that a modern differential geometer might use. The Leroy P. Steele Prize was awarded to Spivak in 1985 for his authorship of the work. MathTime Professional 2 Fonts". pctex.com. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013 . Retrieved October 15, 2013.McCurdy, Christen. "Are Gender-Neutral Pronouns Actually Doomed?". Pacific Standard. Archived from the original on May 20, 2021 . Retrieved February 26, 2014.

Spivak was born in Queens, New York. He received his Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) from Harvard University in 1960, [2] and in 1964 he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University under the supervision of John Milnor, with thesis On Spaces Satisfying Poincaré Duality. [1] In 1985, Spivak received the Leroy P. Steele Prize.Prof. Michael D. Spivak Pathway Lectures". September 3, 2012. Archived from the original on September 3, 2012.

Guillemin, Victor (1973). "Review: A comprehensive introduction to differential geometry, Vols. 1 & 2, by M. Spivak". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (2): 303–306. doi: 10.1090/s0002-9904-1973-13149-0. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021 . Retrieved April 28, 2021.

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There is no multivariable calculus, which is a pity; I'd have loved to see what Spivak could do with that at this level. (His Calculus on Manifolds is, of course, a classic, but it is so terse as to be impenetrable for most students.)