Disorder in Physical Systems. A Volume in Honour of John M. Hammersley on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday

orig. cloth Slight page-edge soil, minor rubbing, VG. Textual tables & graphs 24x16cm, x, 378 pp Contains 22 papers. Includes: N.N. Bingham & U. Stadtmuller "Jakimovski Methods & Almost-Sure Convergence"; P.Clifford "Markov Random Fields in Statistics"; C. Domb "On Hammersley's Method for One-Dimensional Covering Problems"; P. Erdos & A. Sarkozy "On a Problem of Straus":J.W. Essam & D. Tanlakishani "Directed Compact Percolation II: Nodal Points, Mass Distribution & Scaling"; M.E. Fisher & R.R.P. Singh "Critical Points, Large-Dimensionality Expansions, & the Ising Spin Glass"; R.J. Gibbens, et al: "Bistability in Communication Networks"; I.J. Good "A Quantal Hypothesis for Hadrons & the Judging of Physical Numerology"; D.C. Handscomb "Monte Carlo Methods Applied to Quantum-Mechanical Order- Disorder Phenomena in Crystals"; W.S: Kendall "The Diffusion of Euclidean Shape"; H. Kesten "Asymptotics in High Dimensions for Percolation"; J.F.C. Kingman "Some Random Collections of Finite Subsets"; C.J.H. McDiarmid " Probabilistic Analysis of Tree Search"; J.S: Rowlinson "Probability Densities for Some One-Dimensional Problems in Staistical Mechanics"; J.M. Steele "Seedlings in the Theory of Shortest Paths"; D.J.A. Welsh "The Computational Complexity of Some Classical Problems from Statistical Physics"; S.G. Whittington & C.E. Soteros "Lattice Animals: Rigorous Results & Wild Guesses"; P. Whittle "Fields & Flows on Random Graphs"; J.C.Wierman "Bond Percolation Critical Probability Bounds for the Kagome Lattice by a Substitution Method"; D.Williams "Brownian Motion & the Riemann Zeta-Function". Slight page-edge soil, minor rubbing, VG.…