This self-contained book is a graduate-level introduction for
mathematicians and for physicists interested in the mathematical
foundations of the field, and can be used as a textbook for a
two-semester course on mathematical statistical mechanics. It
assumes only basic knowledge of classical physics and, on the
mathematics side, a good working knowledge of graduate-level
probability theory. The book starts with a concise introduction to
statistical mechanics, proceeds to disordered lattice spin systems,
and concludes with a presentation of the latest developments in the
mathematical understanding of mean-field spin glass models. In
particular, progress towards a rigorous understanding of the
replica symmetry-breaking solutions of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick
spin glass models, due to Guerra, Aizenman-Sims-Starr and
Talagrand, is reviewed in some detail.
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