Proceedings of the Fifth Mexican School on Statistical Physics, EMFE 5, Oaxtepec, Mexico, 1989

Proceedings of the Fifth Mexican School on Statistical Physics, EMFE 5, Oaxtepec, Mexico, 1989
Author: Francisco Ramos-Gómez
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 145
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789810205843

Four lectures delivered to graduate students and researchers new to statistical physics at Oaxtepec, Mexico, August 1989, review the field and describe recent advances. The topics are coherent fields in disordered systems; the thermodyanmic behavior of two-dimensional vesicles; randomness, information, and complexity; and the aerodynamics of Leonardo da Vinci. Mostly double-spaced. No index. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR