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Byron, Frederick William was born on July 8, 1938 in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Frederick William and Anna (Muir) Byron.
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This textbook is designed to complement graduate-level physics texts in classical mechanics, electricity, magnetism, and quantum mechanics. Organized around the central concept of a vector space, the book includes numerous physical applications in the body of the text as well as many problems of a physical nature. It is also one of the purposes of this book to introduce the physicist to the language and style of mathematics as well as the content of those particular subjects with contemporary relevance in physics. Chapters 1 and 2 are devoted to the mathematics of classical physics. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 — the backbone of the book — cover the theory of vector spaces. Chapter 6 covers analytic function theory. In chapters 7, 8, and 9 the authors take up several important techniques of theoretical physics — the Green's function method of solving differential and partial differential equations, and the theory of integral equations. Chapter 10 introduces the theory of groups. The authors have included a large selection of problems at the end of each chapter, some illustrating or extending mathematical points, others stressing physical application of techniques developed in the text. Essentially self-contained, the book assumes only the standard undergraduate preparation in physics and mathematics, i.e. intermediate mechanics, electricity and magnetism, introductory quantum mechanics, advanced calculus and differential equations. The text may be easily adapted for a one-semester course at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level.
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Byron, Frederick William was born on July 8, 1938 in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Frederick William and Anna (Muir) Byron.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1959; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1963.
Acting assistant professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1963-1965; assistant professor, University of California, 1965-1966; assistant professor, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1966-1969; associate professor, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1969-1974; professor, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, since 1974; head department physics and astronomy, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1975-1979; dean, U. Massachusetts (Faculty Natural Sciences and Mathematics), Amherst, 1979-1993; coordinating dean, U. Massachusetts (College of Arts and Sciences), Amherst, 1989-1991; vice chancellor research and economics development, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, since 1994. Board directors Manufacturing Partnership We. Massachusetts, Massachusetts Ventures Corporation, chairman, 1995-1997.
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Fellow American Physical Society.
Married Edith Iselin, June 23, 1961. Children: Kenniston, Alexander deNeufville.