James P Sethna

Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new and updated edition of the successful Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters and Complexity from 2006. Statistical mechanics is a core topic in modern physics. Innovative, fresh introduction to the broad range of topics of statistical mechanics today, by brilliant teacher and renowned researcher.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 196mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1247g
• ISBN-13: 9780198865247
• ISBN-10: 0198865244
• Artikelnr.: 60177569

Autorenporträt

James P. Sethna is professor of physics at Cornell University. Sethna has used statistical mechanics to make substantive contributions in a bewildering variety of subjects -- mathematics (dynamical systems and the onset of chaos), engineering (microstructure, plasticity, and fracture), statistics (information geometry, sloppy models, low-dimensional embeddings), materials science (glasses and spin glasses, liquid crystals, crackling noise, superconductivity), and popular culture (mosh pit dynamics and zombie outbreak epidemiology). He has collected cool, illustrative problems from students and colleagues over the decades, which inspired this textbook.