New Spaces in Mathematics: Volume 1

In this graduate-level book, leading researchers explore various new notions of 'space' in mathematics.

This book explores various new notions of space in mathematics, including both formal and conceptual points of view, as presented by leading experts at the New Spaces in Mathematics and Physics workshop. It is suitable for mathematicians and mathematical physicists, as well as historians and philosophers of these disciplines.After the development of manifolds and algebraic varieties in the previous century, mathematicians and physicists have continued to advance concepts of space. This book and its companion explore various new notions of space, including both formal and conceptual points of view, as presented by leading experts at the New Spaces in Mathematics and Physics workshop held at the Institut Henri Poincaré in 2015. The chapters in this volume cover a broad range of topics in mathematics, including diffeologies, synthetic differential geometry, microlocal analysis, topos theory, infinity-groupoids, homotopy type theory, category-theoretic methods in geometry, stacks, derived geometry, and noncommutative geometry. It is addressed primarily to mathematicians and mathematical physicists, but also to historians and philosophers of these disciplines.