Many Faces of Maxwell, Dirac and Einstein Equations

Waldyr Alves Rodrigues Jr, full professor of Mathematical Physics, at the State Universityof Campinas, São Paulo,Brazil, received his BSc from the University of São Paulo, and his PhD from the University of Torino, Italy. He has held variouspositions at Brazilian and European universities, one of them being director ofthe Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computation, StateUniversity of Campinas (IMECC-UNICAMP) from 1994 to1998. He has more than 40years of teaching experience in more than 70 courses at graduate andpost-graduate levels. As a researcher he received many grants, and variousprizes - especially in 2012 he won the Paul Sabatier honor medal in 2012 for hiscontributions to applications of Clifford algebras to mathematical physics.He is the editor-in-chief of the journal “Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras”.Edmundo Capelas deOliveira is a member of theMathematical Physics Group at the StateUniversity of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil. He received hisPhD in Physics in 1982, and became a full professor in Applied Mathematics in 2015.His research topics involve projective relativity, differential equations, complexanalysis and fractional calculus. He is author of several successful  textbooks (in Portuguese), teachesundergraduate as well as graduate courses, and held positions as LibraryCoordinator, Graduate Studies Coordinator of the Department and AssociateDirector of the Institute.

From the reviews of the 1st edition: "The main intention of the present book is to familiarise the reader with the algebra and calculus within the Clifford bundle formalism ... . The text is written in a very readable manner and is complemented with plenty of worked-out exercises which are in the style of extended examples. ... From my personal point of view, the authors elegantly succeed in their ambitions and, in my opinion, their book could also serve as a textbook for graduate students in physics or mathematics." (Alberto Molgado, Mathematical Reviews, 2008 k)

• Preface.- Introduction.- Multivector and Extensor Calculus.- The Hidden Geometrical Nature of Spinors.- Some Differential Geometry.- Clifford Bundle Approach to the Differential Geometry of Branes.- Some Issues in Relativistic Spacetime Theories.- Clifford and Dirac-Hestenes Spinor Fields.- A Clifford Algebra Lagrangian Formalism in Minkowski Spacetime.- Conservation Laws on Riemann-Cartan and Lorentzian Spacetimes.- The DHE on a RCST and the Meaning of Active Local Lorentz Invariance.- On the Nature of the Gravitational Field.- On the Many Faces of Einstein Equations.- Maxwell, Dirac and Seiberg-Witten Equations.- Superparticles and Superfields.- Maxwell, Einstein, Dirac and Navier-Stokes Equations.- Magnetic Like Particles and Elko Spinor Fields.-Appendices A1-5.- Acronyms and Abbreviations.- List of Symbols.- Index.