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Series on Advances in Statistical Mechanics - Vol. 2

MODERN METHODS IN EQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS

by M Rasetti (Turin)

This book consists of a set of lecture notes on graduate courses in Analytical Mechanics and Statistical Mechanics which the author successively gave at the University of Miami, and at the University and Polytechnic of Turin over the past decade. The book centers on the idea that stochasticity can come out of nonlinearities even in the case of a few degrees of freedom, and on how this bears on the known methods of classical statistical mechanics and its link with thermodynamics.


Contents:

  • Review of Basic Classical Mechanics
  • Probability and Mechanics
  • Elements of Probability Theory
  • Elements of Random Processes Theory
  • A Few Elements of Quantitative Information Theory


Readership: Mathematicians, physicists and engineers.

270pp Pub. date: Jun 1986
ISBN 9971-966-27-1 US$47 / £34
ISBN 9971-966-29-8(pbk) US$28 / £20


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