Statistical Physics. Statistics, Dynamics and Renormalization
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Author(s): L. P. Kadanoff
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9810237588
Format: hardback
483pp
Price: £52.00
Review Date: 28 July 2000
Review: This textbook presents material that the author used on two courses that he taught at the University of Chicago: a graduate level survey of statistical physics; and a personal perspective on critical behaviour. It follows a progression from the book-learning part of a graduate course to topics discussed at research level. Relevant research papers are included. Several of these are classics in the field, including: a suite of works on self-organised criticality and complexity; two papers on diffusion-linked aggregation; papers on correlations near critical points, a few basic sources on the development of the real-space renormalisation group, and several papers on the magnetic behaviour in a plane geometry.