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020			_a9780199545049
082	0	4	_a530.13 _bSET
100			_aSethna,james
245	1	0	_aStatistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters And Complexity _cJames Sethna
250			_a1st
260			_aOxford _bOup Oxford _c2006
300			_a384 p
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			_aPhysics
942			_cENGLISH
999			_c583873 _d583873