By Leo P. Kadanoff
The fabric offered during this useful textbook has been verified in classes. the sort of is a graduate-level survey of statistical physics; the opposite, a slightly own standpoint on serious habit. hence, this ebook defines a development beginning on the book-learning a part of graduate schooling and finishing in the course of issues on the examine point. To complement the research-level facet the ebook comprises a little research papers. numerous of those are classics within the box, together with a collection of six works on self-organized criticality and complexity, a couple on diffusion-limited aggregation, a few papers on correlations close to severe issues, some of the uncomplicated assets at the improvement of the real-space renormalization staff, and several other papers on magnetic habit in a simple geometry. moreover, the writer has integrated some of his personal papers.
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