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020			_a0198566778
020			_a9780198566779
040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a530.13 _bSe75s
100			_aSethna, James P.
245	1		_aStatistical mechanics _bentropy, order parameters, and complexity _cJames P. Sethna
260			_aOxford _bOxford University Press _c2006
300			_axix, 349p
440			_aOxford Master Series in statistical, computational, and theoretical physics. Oxford Master Series in physics
520			_aIn 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.
650			_aStatistical mechanics
942			_cBK
999			_c356301 _d356301