| Spin Glasses: A Challenge for Mathematicians: Cavity and Mean Field Models 2003 Edition Contributor(s): Talagrand, Michel (Author), Talagrand, M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3540003568 ISBN-13: 9783540003564 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $189.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2003 Annotation: In the eighties, a group of theoretical physicists introduced several models for certain disordered systems, called "spin glasses." These models are simple and rather canonical random structures, that physicists studied by non-rigorous methods. They predicted spectacular behaviors, previously unknown in probability theory. They believe these behaviors occur in many models of considerable interest for several branches of science (statistical physics, neural networks and computer science). This book introduces in a rigorous manner this exciting new area to the mathematically minded reader. It requires no knowledge whatsoever of any physics, and contains proofs in complete detail of much of what is rigorously known on spin glasses at the time of writing. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Condensed Matter - Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - General - Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational |
| Dewey: 530.413 |
| LCCN: 2003054400 |
| Series: Ergebnisse Der Mathematik Und Ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge / |
| Physical Information: 1.43" H x 6.5" W x 9.36" (2.17 lbs) 586 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In the 1980s, a group of theoretical physicists introduced several models for certain disordered systems, called "spin glasses". This rigorous book introduces this exciting new area to the mathematically minded reader. It requires no knowledge whatsoever of any physics, and contains proofs in complete detail of much of what is rigorously known on spin glasses at the time of writing. |