Categories in Continuum Physics

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Continuum mechanics and geometric integration theory.- Structure of continuum physics.- On differentiable spaces.- Cartesian closed categories and analysis of smooth maps.- to synthetic differential geometry, and a synthetic theory of dislocations.- Synthetic reasoning and variable sets.- Recent research on the foundations of thermodynamics.- Global and local versions of the second law of thermodynamics.- Thermodynamics and the hahn-banach theorem.- What is the length of a potato?.