Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 722 g
Entropy, Order Parameters and Complexity
Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 722 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-856677-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press
In 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.
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Fachgebiete
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Atom- und Molekülphysik
- Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Grafikprogrammierung
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Hochenergiephysik
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Statistische Physik, Dynamische Systeme
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Angewandte Biologie Biomathematik
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Mathematische Statistik
- Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Strömungslehre
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Teilchenphysik
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Datenanalyse, Datenverarbeitung
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Plasmaphysik
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik Kontinuumsmechanik, Strömungslehre
Weitere Infos & Material
- 1: What is Statistical Mechanics?
- 2: Random walks and emergent properties
- 3: Temperature and equilibrium
- 4: Phase-space dynamics and ergodicity
- 5: Entropy
- 6: Free Energies
- 7: Quantum statistical mechanics
- 8: Calculation and computation
- 9: Order parameters, broken symmetry, and topology
- 10: Correlations, response, and dissipation
- 11: Abrupt phase transitions
- 12: Continuous phase transitions
- Appendix: Fourier methods
