Exactly Solved Models: A Journey in Statistical Mechanics - Selected Papers with Commentaries (1963-2008)

Fa Yueh Wu

ISBN 10: 9812813888 / ISBN 13: 9789812813886

Editore: World Scientific Publishing Company Dez 2008, 2008

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Neuware - This unique volume provides a comprehensive overview of exactly solved models in statistical mechanics by looking at the scientific achievements of F Y Wu in this and related fields, which span four decades of his career. The book is organized into topics ranging from lattice models in condensed matter physics to graph theory in mathematics, and includes the author's pioneering contributions. Through insightful commentaries, the author presents an overview of each of the topics and an insider's look at how crucial developments emerged. With the inclusion of important pedagogical review articles by the author, Exactly Solved Models is an indispensable learning tool for graduate students, and an essential reference and source book for researchers in physics and mathematics as well as historians of science.

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• Titolo: Exactly Solved Models: A Journey in Statistical Mechanics - Selected Papers with Commentaries (1963-2008)
• Editore: World Scientific Publishing Company Dez 2008
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9812813888
• ISBN 13: 9789812813886
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu

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Fa Yueh Wu (Northeastern U.) found statistical mechanics at the beginning of his career 40 years ago, and he began a career of multifaceted enduring contributions to the field, which at that time was in a burgeoning stage of development. The field has now branched out to other areas of physics and science, and those seeking a toehold have a harder time. In response to this dilemma, Wu offers graduate students this book with a twofold purpose: it introduces exactly solvable models and their role outside of traditional statistical mechanics, and it collects and organizes by theme some of Wu's pedagogical papers written over the years. He provides commentaries to introduce each topic, which include Dimer statistics, duality and gauge transformations, the Ising model, the Potts model, critical frontiers, percolation, graph theory, and knot invariants. Culminating the book is a contributed chapter reviewing Wu's contributions in lattice statistical mechanics, solid state physics, graph theory, and enumerative combinatorics, among other domains. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)