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This page is to record the reference:
William Lawvere, Stephen Schanuel (eds.):
Categories in Continuum Physics
Lectures given at a Workshop held at SUNY, Buffalo 1982
Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1174
Springer (1986)
on the foundations of continuum mechanics (also rational thermodynamics), variational calculus and equations of motion in synthetic differential geometry, diffeological spaces, Frölicher spaces and of the notion intensive and extensive properties by mapping spaces in ring objects, and related constructions in topos theory.
Related texts by Lawvere include
For related discussion see also at geometry of physics and higher category theory and physics.
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