TY - BOOK AU - Mattis, Daniel C. AU - Swendsen, Robert H. TI - Statistical mechanics made simple [2nd ed.] SN - 9789812779090 U1 - 530.13 PY - 2008/// CY - New Jersey PB - World Scientific KW - Statistical mechanics N2 - llustrates through examples the principles and logic used in extending the simple laws of idealized Newtonian physics and quantum physics into the real world of noise and thermal fluctuations. This book incorporates important aspects of many-body theory and of phase transitions ER -