Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters and Complexity

by James P. Sethna

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198566778
• ISBN13: 9780198566779
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.7"