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020 _a9789812779090
040 _cIIT Kanpur
041 _aeng
082 _a530.13
_bM435s2
100 _aMattis, Daniel C.
245 1 _aStatistical mechanics made simple [2nd ed.]
_cDaniel C. Mattis and Robert H. Swendsen
250 _a2nd ed.
260 _aNew Jersey
_bWorld Scientific
_c2008
300 _axxi, 335p
520 _allustrates through examples the principles and logic used in extending the simple laws of idealized Newtonian physics and quantum physics into the real world of noise and thermal fluctuations. This book incorporates important aspects of many-body theory and of phase transitions.
650 _aStatistical mechanics
700 _aSwendsen, Robert H.
942 _cBK
999 _c361336
_d361336