Description
| Product ID: | 9780198566779 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Oxford Master Series in Physics |
| Title: | Statistical Mechanics |
| Subtitle: | Entropy, Order Parameters and Complexity |
| Authors: | Author: James Sethna |
| Page Count: | 384 |
| Subjects: | Cosmology and the universe, Cosmology & the universe, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), Thermochemistry and chemical thermodynamics, Mechanical engineering and materials, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Thermochemistry & chemical thermodynamics, Mechanical engineering & materials |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-04-06 |
