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Modern Theory of Critical Phenomena

Modern Theory of Critical Phenomena

Shang-keng Ma (Author)
July 2000
Trade Paperback · 582 Pages
$57.00 U.S. · $65.99 CAN · £37.99 U.K. · €40.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780738203010
Westview Press
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Description

An important contributor to our current understanding of critical phenomena, Ma introduces the beginner—especially the graduate student with no previous knowledge of the subject-to fundamental theoretical concepts such as mean field theory, the scaling hypothesis, and the renormalization group. He then goes on to apply the renormalization group to selected problems, with emphasis on the underlying physics and the basic assumptions involved.

About the Author

Shang-Keng Ma was Professor of Physics at the University of California at San Diego.