Causality, Measurement Theory and the Differentiable Structure of Space-Time

R. N. Sen was a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, and is now retired. His main research interests were the theory of symmetry of infinite quantum-mechanical systems and mathematical investigations into the relation between mathematics and physics, particularly the origins of the differentiable structure of space-time. He has taught a broad spectrum of courses on physics and mathematics, as well as demography. A life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, he has been a Gauss Professor in Göttingen and is also a member of the International Association for Mathematical Physics and the Israel Mathematical Union.

• Prologue; Part I: Introduction to Part I; 1. Mathematical structures on sets of points; 2. Definition of causality on a structureless set; 3. The topology of ordered spaces; 4. Completions of ordered spaces; 5. Structures on order-complete spaces; Part II: Introduction to Part II; 6. Real numbers and classical measurements; 7. Special topics in quantum mechanics; 8. Von Neumann's theory of measurement; 9. Macroscopic observables in quantum physics; 10. Sewell's theory of measurement; 11. Summing-up; 12. Large quantum systems; Epilogue; Appendixes; References; Index.

'Sen has written a superb book. It should be of special interest to any serious senior undergraduate or graduate student in theoretical physics, and to mathematical physicists and mathematicians working in quantum theory, quantum field theory, relativity, or the foundations of physics.' Mathematics Review