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What I have seen so far for statistical mechanics is uses of integral calculus notation that has nothing to do with anything in any version of calculus, advance
by graycat 5y ago
What I have seen so far for statistical mechanics is uses of integral calculus notation that has nothing to do with anything in any version of calculus, advanced calculus, measure theory, the Riemann integral, Lebesgue integration, etc.
- myridium 5y agoWell if you're doing fermionic thermal field theory sure (where the `integral' on Grassmann numbers is just some linear operation which satisfies certain properties). But apart from that I thought all the thermodynamic quantities were defined in terms of the partition function, which is a perfectly well-defined (Riemann) integral...