Download or read book Smooth Manifolds and Observables written by Jet Nestruev and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an introduction to fiber spaces and differential operators on smooth manifolds. Over the last 20 years, the authors developed an algebraic approach to the subject and they explain in this book why differential calculus on manifolds can be considered as an aspect of commutative algebra. This new approach is based on the fundamental notion of observable which is used by physicists and will further the understanding of the mathematics underlying quantum field theory.