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Statistical Mechanics
Entropy, Order Parameters and Complexity
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Artikel-Nr:
9780198566779
Veröffentl:
2006
Erscheinungsdatum:
06.04.2006
Seiten:
384
Autor:
James Sethna
Gewicht:
892 g
Format:
249x190x27 mm
Sprache:
Deutsch
Beschreibung:
Prof. James P. Sethna is Professor of Physics, Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
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.
Sethna's book distills the core ideas of statistical mechanics to make room for new advances important to information theory, complexity, and modern biology. Aimed at advanced undergraduates and early graduate students, Sethna's text explores everything from chaos through information theory to life at the end of the universe.
1: What is Statistical Mechanics?