Statistical Mechanics - Entropy, Order Parameters and Complexity (Paperback)

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 main presentation 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 field of study: everything from chaos through information theory to life at the end of the universe.

General

Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford Master Series in Physics
Release date:	April 2006
First published:	May 2006
Authors:	James Sethna
Dimensions:	246 x 189 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	349
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-856677-9
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Cosmology & the universe Books > Professional & Technical > Mechanical engineering & materials > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Quantum physics (quantum mechanics) > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Chemistry > Physical chemistry > Thermochemistry & chemical thermodynamics
LSN:	0-19-856677-8
Barcode:	9780198566779

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