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This is a unique and exciting graduate and advanced undergraduate
text written by a highly respected physicist who had made
significant contributions to the subject. This book conveys to the
reader that statistical mechanics is a growing and lively subject.
It deals with many modern topics from a physics standpoint in a
very physical way. Particular emphasis is given to the fundamental
assumption of statistical mechanics S=1n and its logical
foundation. Calculational rules are derived without resorting to
abstract ensemble theory.
An important contributor to our current understanding of critical
phenomena, Ma introduces the beginner--especially the graduate
student with no previous knowledge of the subject-to fundamental
theoretical concepts such as mean field theory, the scaling
hypothesis, and the renormalization group. He then goes on to apply
the renormalization group to selected problems, with emphasis on
the underlying physics and the basic assumptions involved.
An important contributor to our current understanding of critical
phenomena, Ma introduces the beginner--especially the graduate
student with no previous knowledge of the subject-to fundamental
theoretical concepts such as mean field theory, the scaling
hypothesis, and the renormalization group. He then goes on to apply
the renormalization group to selected problems, with emphasis on
the underlying physics and the basic assumptions involved.
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