Lectures On Phase Transitions And The Renormalization Group (Frontiers in Physics)

Goldenfeld, Nigel

ISBN 10: 0201554097 / ISBN 13: 9780201554090

Published by Addison-Wesley, 1972

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lectures On Phase Transitions And The Renormalization Group (Frontiers in Physics)
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201554097
• ISBN 13: 9780201554090
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Covering the elementary aspects of the physics of phases transitions and the renormalization group, this popular book is widely used both for core graduate statistical mechanics courses as well as for more specialized courses. Emphasizing understanding and clarity rather than technical manipulation, these lectures de-mystify the subject and show precisely "how things work." Goldenfeld keeps in mind a reader who wants to understand why things are done, what the results are, and what in principle can go wrong. The book reaches both experimentalists and theorists, students and even active researchers, and assumes only a prior knowledge of statistical mechanics at the introductory graduate level.Advanced, never-before-printed topics on the applications of renormalization group far from equilibrium and to partial differential equations add to the uniqueness of this book.

About the Author

Nigel Goldenfeld