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James Sethna

Statistical Mechanics

Name: Statistical Mechanics
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780191566219
Price: 35.99 EUR
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Entropy, Order Parameters and Complexity

Oxford University Press

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In each generation, scientists must redefine their fields: abstracting, simplifying and distilling the previous standard topics to make room for new advances and methods. Sethna's book takes this step for statistical mechanics - a field rooted in physics and chemistry whose ideas and methods are now central to information theory, complexity, and modern biology. Aimed at advanced undergraduates and early graduate students in all of these fields, Sethna limits his mainpresentation to the topics that future mathematicians and biologists, as well as physicists and chemists, will find fascinating and central to their work. The amazing breadth of the field is reflected in the author's large supply of carefully crafted exercises, each an introduction to a whole fieldof study: everything from chaos through information theory to life at the end of the universe.