Statistical Physics: Statics, Dynamics and Renormalization (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789810237585)

The material presented in this invaluable textbook has been tested in two courses. One of these is a graduate-level survey of statistical physics; the other, a rather personal perspective on critical behavior. Thus, this book defines a progression starting at the book-learning part of graduate education and ending in the midst of topics at the research level. To supplement the research-level side the book includes some research papers. Several of these are classics in the field, including a suite of six works on self-organized criticality and complexity, a pair on diffusion-limited aggregation, some papers on correlations near critical points, a few of the basic sources on the development of the real-space renormalization group, and several papers on magnetic behavior in a plain geometry. In addition, the author has included a few of his own papers.

Author: Leo P. Kadanoff
ISBN-10: 9810237588
ISBN-13: 9789810237585
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 05/08/2000
Pages: 500
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.70lbs
Size: 10.59h x 7.93w x 1.28d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 12/01/2000 pg. 49