Theoretical & Statistical...

Information, Physics,and Computation

Marc Mézard, Université de Paris

Sud, Orsay, France, and andrea

Montanari, Stanford University

‘This book is an excellentgraduate-level text on theamazing connectionsbetween modern error-correcting codes(information theory), spinglass systems (condensedmatter physics), andsatisfiability problems(computational complexity)... I would expect anyresearcher working near the

intersection of information theory, statistical physicsand combinatorial optimization to find this book to be a highly-valued resource.’

Mathematical Reviews

Oxford Graduate Texts

2009 | 584 pages | 140 line drawings

978-0-19-857083-7, HARDBACK £49.95/$99.00MÈzard and Montanari: Information, Physics, and Computation

Statistical Field Theory

An Introduction to Exactly Solved Models inStatistical Physics

Giuseppe Mussardo,

International School for

Advanced Studies, Trieste,

Italy

‘Overall, this book is verycomprehensive and suitablefor beginners in this field. Itwill also be very helpful formathematicians interestedin conformal field theory andexactly solvable models.’

Mathematical Reviews

This book provides a thorough introduction to thefascinating world of phase transitions as well as manyrelated topics, including random walks, combinatorialproblems, quantum field theory and S-matrix.


2009 | 784 pages | 150 line and halftone figures

978-0-19-954758-6, HARDBACK £51.50/$99.00Mussardo: Statistical Field Theory

Scale-Free Networks

Complex Webs in Nature andTechnology

Guido Caldarelli, University of

Rome ‘Sapienza’

‘The context and exposition make this a usefultextbook for beginners, as well as a reference book forexperts in a variety of disciplines’

CERN Courier

Oxford Finance Series

2007 | 328 pages | 128 line drawings and 9 halftones

978-0-19-921151-7, HARDBACK £55.00/$115.00Caldarelli: Scale-Free Networks

Quantum Liquids

Bose condensation and Cooper pairing in condensed-matter systems

anthony James Leggett,

University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign

‘There are many features that make his book anextraordinarily valuable one.Outstanding merits includethe author’s attempt toprovide physical ideas ratherthan equations and to derivestandard results (such as the Ginzburg-Landauformulation of super-conductivity theory) in a new way.’

Nature



978-0-19-852643-8, HARDBACK £46.50/$85.00Leggett: Quantum Liquids

Quantum Physics in One Dimension

Thierry Giamarchi, DPMC,

University of Geneva

‘The quality of the productattests to the fact that writingthis impressive tome was alabour of love for the author.Anyone with a seriousinterest in getting to gripswith one-dimensionalquantum systems needs thebook on their shelves—andwill have great fun reading it too.’

David Logan, Journal of Physics

International Series of Monographs on Physics No. 121

2003 | 440 pages | numerous line drawings Clarendon Press

978-0-19-852500-4, HARDBACK £72.50/$140.00Giamarchi: Quantum Physics in One Dimension

Advanced StatisticalMechanics

Barry M. McCoy, State University

of New York, Stony Brook

Statistical Mechanics is thestudy of systems where thenumber of interactingparticles becomes infinite. Inthe last 50 years tremendousadvances have been madewhich have required theinvention of entirely newfields of mathematics such as quantum groups andaffine Lie algebras; havemade remarkable discoveriesconcerning non-linear

differential equations and algebraic geometry; andhave produced profound insights in both condensedmatter physics and quantum field theory. This booksets out to make all these advances accessible to areadership of graduate and higher level researchers.


2009 | 640 pages | 115 b/w line illustrations

978-0-19-955663-2, HARDBACK £57.50/$99.00McCoy: Advanced Statistical Mechanics

The Global Approach to Quantum Field Theory

SECOND EDITION

Bryce DeWitt, University of Texas at Austin

‘The book’s presentation is very impressive. Conceptualproblems are elegantly exhibited and there is an innercoherent logic of exposition that could only come fromsomeone who had long and deeply reflected on thesubject, and made important contributions to it.’

CERN Courier


2003 | 1,136 pages | Clarendon Press

978-0-19-851093-2, HARDBACK £169.95/$299.00DeWitt: The Global Approach to Quantum Field Theory

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Theoretical & Statistical Physics

The Nature of Computation

Cristopher Moore, University of New Mexico, and Santa Fe Institute, and Stephan Mertens, Otto-von-Guericke

University, Magdeburg, and Santa Fe Institute

‘A creative, insightful, and accessible introduction to the theory of computing, written with a keen eye towardthe frontiers of the field and a vivid enthusiasm for the subject matter.’

Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University

‘It offers a wonderful tour through many facets of computer science. It is precise and gets into details whennecessary, but the main thread is always at hand, and entertaining anecdotes help to keep the pace.’

Marc Mézard, Université de Paris Sud, Orsay

Why are some problems easy to solve, while others seem nearly impossible? What can we compute with agiven amount of time or memory, and what cannot be computed at all? How will quantum physics change the landscape of computation? This book gives a playful and accessible introduction to the deep ideas oftheoretical computer science.

June 2011 | 992 pages | 338 b&w line illustrations and 30 b&w halftones

978-0-19-923321-2, HARDBACK £55.00/$90.00

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Mathematical Theory of QuantumFields

Huzihiro araki, The Science

University of Tokyo

This is an introduction to themathematical foundations ofquantum field theory, usingoperator algebraic methodsand emphasizing the linkbetween the mathematicalformulations and relatedphysical concepts. It startswith a general probabilisticdescription of physics, which

encompasses both classical and quantum physics. Thebasic key physical notions are clarified at this point. It then introduces operator algebraic methods forquantum theory, and goes on to discuss the theory ofspecial relativity, scattering theory, and sector theory in this context.


2009 | 248 pages

978-0-19-956640-2, PAPERBACK £32.50/$60.00978-0-19-851773-3, HARDBACK £99.95/$175.00Araki: Mathematical Theory of Quantum Fields

Many-Body Quantum Theoryin Condensed Matter Physics

An Introduction

Henrik Bruus, Technical

University of Denmark, and

Karsten Flensberg, Niels Bohr

Institute, Denmark

An introduction to quantumfield theory applied tocondensed matter physics,this book covers modernapplications in electronsystems and electronicproperties of mesoscopicsystems and nanosystems.


2004 | 456 pages | 150 b/w line figures

978-0-19-856633-5, HARDBACK £52.50/$109.99Bruus and Flensberg: Many-Body Quantum Theory in Condensed Matter Physics

Quantum Field Theory ofMany-Body Systems

From the Origin of Sound to anOrigin of Light and Electrons

xiao-Gang Wen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

USA

This book is a pedagogical introduction to newconcepts and quantum field theoretical methods incondensed matter physics, which may have an impacton our understanding of the origin of light, electronsand other elementary particles in the universe.


2007 | 520 pages | 130 figures

978-0-19-922725-9, PAPERBACK £25.00/$49.95978-0-19-853094-7, HARDBACK £55.00/$130.00Wen: Quantum Field Theory of Many-Body Systems

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Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Molecular Simulation

Mark Tuckerman, New York University and Courant Institute of Mathematical

Sciences

By uniting basic concepts in equilibrium and time-dependent statistical mechanicswith modern computational techniques, the book provides a comprehensive viewof how theory proceeds from concepts to model construction to practicalalgorithms.

Solutions manual available for lecturers. Please visit www.oup.com/ukfor more information.


February 2010 | 712 pages | 147 figures

978-0-19-852526-4, HARDBACK £47.99/$90.00

Networks

An Introduction

Mark Newman, University of Michigan

‘Overall, this is an excellent textbook for the growing field of networks. It iscleverly written and suitable as both an introduction for undergraduate students(particularly Parts 1 to 3) and as a roadmap for graduate students. Being highly self-contained, computer scientists and professionals from other fields can also use thebook—In short, this book is a delight for the inquisitive mind.’

Computing Reviews

This book brings together for the first time the most important breakthroughs innetworks analysis from mathematics, physics, computer and informationsciences, biology, and the social sciences, presenting them in a coherent fashion, and highlighting the stronginterconnections between work in different areas. Subjects covered include the measurement and structure of networks in many branches of science, methods for analyzing network data, including methods developedin physics, statistics, and sociology, the fundamentals of graph theory, computer algorithms, and spectralmethods, mathematical models of networks, including random graph models and generative models, andtheories of dynamical processes taking place on networks.

Solutions manual available for lecturers. Please visit www.oup.com/uk for more information.

March 2010 | 784 pages | 120 line illustrations | 4 colour plates

978-0-19-920665-0, HARDBACK £45.00/$85.00

Elements of Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena

Hidetoshi Nishimori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Gerardo Ortiz, Indiana

University, Bloomington

‘This book gives a comprehensive and readable introduction to the most importantaspects of the modern theory of critical phenomena. After a thorough discussion of the basic approaches of mean field theory and the renormalization group, moreadvanced topics, such as conformal field theory and spin glasses, are discussed to a level from which the reader can proceed to more advanced texts. The subjectmatter is well illustrated by examples and exercises, which makes this an idealgraduate text as well as useful background material for the more casual reader.’

John Cardy FRS, University of Oxford

This book provides an introductory account on the theory of phase transitions andcritical phenomena. It reflects lectures given by the authors to graduate students at their departments and isthus classroom-tested to help beginners enter the field. Almost all parts are written in a self-contained mannerand every new concept or calculation is explained in much detail without assuming prior knowledge of thesubject. Problem sets are included, with solutions given at the end of the book.


December 2010 | 376 pages | 100 b/w line illustrations

978-0-19-957722-4, HARDBACK £49.95/$89.95

suitable as a student text


Entropy and the Time Evolution ofMacroscopic Systems

Walter T. Grandy, Jr., University of

Wyoming

‘Written in an accessible style, the book makesnumerous little-known connections betweenmacroscopic and microscopic expressions for entropyand entropy production... Filled with many examples,Grandy’s thought-provoking exposition will be ofinterest for years to come. I would recommend it to any serious student of statistical physics’

P. Salamon, Physics Today


2008 | 224 pages

978-0-19-954617-6, HARDBACK £62.50/$125.00Grandy, Jr.: Entropy and the Time Evolution of Macroscopic Systems

Phase Transitions andRenormalization Group

Jean Zinn-Justin, Dapnia,

CEA/Saclay, France

The renormalization group is one of most importanttheoretical concepts that has emerged in physicsduring the twentieth century. It explains importantproperties of fundamental interactions at themicroscopic scale, as well as universal properties of continuous macroscopic phase transitions.


2007 | 464 pages | 28 b&w line drawings

978-0-19-922719-8, HARDBACK £49.95/$90.00Zinn-Justin: Phase Transitions and Renormalization Group

Advances in the Casimir Effect

Michael Bordag, Leipzig University,

Germany, Galina Leonidovna

Klimchitskaya, North-West Technical University,

St.Petersburg, Russia and Leipzig University, Germany,

Umar Mohideen, University of California, Riverside,

USA, and Vladimir Mikhaylovich Mostepanenko,

Noncommercial Partnership “Scientific Instruments”,

Moscow, and Leipzig University, Germany

The subject of this book is the Casimir effect, amanifestation of zero-pointoscillations of the quantumvacuum resulting in forcesacting between closelyspaced bodies. For thebenefit of the reader, thebook assembles field-theoretical foundations of this phenomenon,applications of the generaltheory to real materials, and

a comprehensive description of all recently performedmeasurements of the Casimir force with a comparisonbetween experiment and theory. The book is a uniquesource of information, presenting a critical assessmentof all the main results and approaches from hundredsof journal papers.


2009 | 768 pages | 120 line figures

978-0-19-923874-3, HARDBACK £77.50/$150.00Bordag, Klimchitskaya, Mohideen, and Mostepanenko: Advances in the Casimir Effect

First Steps in Random Walks

From Tools to Applications

J. Klafter, Tel Aviv University, and I. M. Sokolov,

Humboldt University, Berlin

‘Most statistical physics books treat Brownian motion,but do not introduce the student to the many examplesof anomalous diffusion. This is the void the Klafter-Sokolov book fills, to bring the student into contactwith modern work on random walks with a unifiedapproach.’

Michael Shlesinger, Office of Naval Research, USA

Random walks proved to be a useful model of many complex transport processes at the micro and macroscopical level in physics and chemistry,economics, biology and other disciplines. The bookdiscusses the main variants of random walks and givesthe most important mathematical tools for theirtheoretical description.

Solutions manual available for lecturers. Pleasevisit www.oup.com/uk for more information.

August 2011 | 256 pages | 38 line drawings

978-0-19-923486-8, HARDBACK £39.95/$79.95 Klafter: First Steps in Random Walks

Renormalization Methods

A Guide For Beginners

William David McComb, University of Edinburgh

‘Renormalization Methods should be an excellent source of material for anyone who plans to lead advancedundergraduates and first-year graduate studentsbeyond the standard course material toward currentresearch topics.’

Physics Today


978-0-19-923652-7, PAPERBACK £26.50/$55.00978-0-19-850694-2, HARDBACK £55.00/$110.00McComb: Renormalization Methods

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Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics

Jean Zinn-Justin,

Dapnia/DSM/CEA-Saclay,

France

The mathematical formalismbased on path integrals, asintroduced by Feynman, haschanged our view aboutquantum mechanics. The modern theory offundamental interactions at the microscopic level(quantum field theory) is

hardly comprehensible without path integrals.Moreover, path integrals have allowed establishing adirect mathematical relation between the theory ofordinary phase transitions and quantum field theory.The goal of this book is to introduce students to thistopic within the context of ordinary quantummechanics and non-relativistic many-body theory,before facing the problems associated with the moreinvolved quantum field theory formalism.


July 2010 | 336 pages | 20 b&w line illustrations

978-0-19-856675-5, PAPERBACK £29.95/$54.95978-0-19-856674-8, HARDBACK £57.50/$130.00Zinn-Justin: Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics

Electromagnetic Scattering fromRandom Media

Timothy r. Field, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

The book represents a conceptual shift away fromcurrent thinking in the theory of scattered waves, such that the fluctuations or physical noise inherent in the signals play the primary role in detection andclassification. It is intended to radically change theapproach to statistical processing of signals that areelectromagnetic or wavelike in character.


2008 | 200 pages | 31 figures

978-0-19-857077-6, HARDBACK £62.50/$110.00Field: Electromagnetic Scattering from Random Media



Chaos

The Science of Predictable Random Motion

richard Kautz, Formerly of the National Institute of Standards and Technology,

Boulder, USA

‘Dr. Kautz has written a book that captures the essentials of chaos in a quantitativeway but without advanced mathematics. It is highly recommended for studentsand others with a good background in algebra and trigonometry and with a desirefor a better understanding of the concepts of chaos.’

Julien Clinton Sprott, University of Wisconsin- Madison

Chaos: The Science of Predictable Random Motion bridges the gap between introductionsfor the layman and college-level texts with an account of chaos theory based onelementary mathematics. It develops the science of dynamics in terms of small time steps, describes thephenomenon of chaos through simple examples, and concludes with a close look at a homoclinic tangle, themathematical monster at the heart of chaos. The presentation is enhanced by numerous figures, animationsof chaotic motion (available on a companion CD), and biographical sketches of the pioneers of dynamics andchaos theory.

November 2010 | 384 pages | 168 b/w line and halftone illustrations

978-0-19-959458-0, PAPERBACK £24.95/$44.95978-0-19-959457-3, HARDBACK £55.00/$98.50

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Theory of NonequilibriumSuperconductivity

Nikolai Kopnin, Helsinki University of Technology, and

L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow

‘A good well-written text for professional theoreticalphysicists and graduate students in condensed-mattertheory. Experimental physicists with an interest intheory will be able to follow parts of the book. Thepresentation of TDGL theory in part IV is particularlyreadable and constitutes a uniquely clear presentationof this topic.’

Contemporary Physics



978-0-19-956642-6, PAPERBACK £38.50/$65.00978-0-19-850788-8, HARDBACK £97.50/$175.00Kopnin: Theory of Nonequilibrium Superconductivity

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Theory of Fluctuations inSuperconductors

anatoly Larkin, University of Minnesota, USA and Landau

Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia, and

andrei Varlamov, COHERENTIA-INFM, Rome, Italy

‘Theory of Fluctuations in Superconductors is a thorough and timely book aimed at both theorists andexperimentalists interested in current topics insuperconductivity. The book will be a useful guide and reference for graduate students and establishedworkers in the field.’

James F. Annett, Physics Today



978-0-19-956483-5, PAPERBACK £39.95/$70.00978-0-19-852815-9, HARDBACK £92.50/$200.00Larkin and Varlamov: Theory of Fluctuations in Superconductors

Waves and Oscillations

A Prelude to Quantum Mechanics

Walter Fox Smith, Haverford College

This lively textbook differs from others on the subjectby its usefulness as a conceptual and mathematicalpreparation for the study of quantum mechanics, by its emphasis on a variety of learning tools aimed atfostering the student’s self-awareness of learning, andby its frequent connections to current research.

June 2010 | 416 pages | 163 line drawings & 18 halftones OUP USA

978-0-19-539349-1, HARDBACK £45.00/$75.00Smith: Waves and Oscillations

Hamiltonian Chaos and FractionalDynamics

George M. Zaslavsky, New York University, USA

‘The strengths of the book lie in its broad survey of thecomplexity of Hamiltonian dynamics and its focus oninteresting physical examples. The book has manyexcellent figures and illustrations as well as anextensive bibliography. Each chapter has a modestcollection of associated exercises.’

William J. Satzer, Zentralblatt Math

2008 | 448 pages

978-0-19-953548-4, PAPERBACK £29.50/$65.00978-0-19-852604-9, HARDBACK £72.00/$150.00Zaslavsky: Hamiltonian Chaos and Fractional Dynamics

Complex Dynamics ofGlass-Forming Liquids

A Mode-Coupling Theory

Wolfgang Götze, Technical

University of Munich

Amorphous condensedmatter can exhibit complexmotions on time scales,which extend up to thoserelevant for the functioningof biomaterials. The bookpresents the derivation of a microscopic theory foramorphous matter, whichexhibits the evolution of

the mentioned complex motions as a new paradigm of strongly-interacting-particle systems.


2008 | 656 pages | 119 b&w line drawings

978-0-19-923534-6, HARDBACK £69.95/$130.00Gˆtze: Complex Dynamics of Glass-Forming Liquids

Dynamical Heterogeneities in Glasses,Colloids, and Granular Media

Edited by Ludovic Berthier, Université Montpellier II,

France, Giulio Biroli, CEA Saclay, France, Jean-Philippe

Bouchaud, Capital Fund Management, Paris,

Luca Cipelletti, Université Montpellier II, and

Wim van Saarloos, Leiden University

Most everyday solid materials, from plastics to cosmeticgels, exist in a non-crystalline, amorphous form: theyare glasses. Yet we are still seeking an explanation as towhat glasses really are and to why they form. In thisbook, leading experts present broad and originalperspectives on one of the deepest mysteries ofcondensed matter physics.


June 2011 | 456 pages

978-0-19-969147-0, HARDBACK £75.00/$130.00Berthier, Biroli, Bouchaud, Cipelletti, and van Saarloos: Dynamical Heterogeneities in Glasses, Colloids, and Granular Media

Granular Patterns

Igor aranson, Argonne National

Laboratory, Material Science

Division, and Lev Tsimring,

University of California, San Diego

‘I enthusiasticallyrecommend GranularPatterns to graduate studentsand researchers working onpattern formation or withgranular media. The book isvery useful, and having it athand will foster appreciationof granular patterns and helpresearchers push theboundaries of that truly richand fascinating subject.’

Ellak Somfai, Physics Today

2009 | 368 pages | 161 line drawings and 54 halftones

978-0-19-953441-8, HARDBACK £57.50/$110.00Aranson and Tsimring: Granular Patterns

Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics

Linear Irreversible Processes

Noëlle Pottier,University

Paris-Diderot / Paris 7

‘An extremely thorough,complete and well writtenreference on all well-established aspects of non-equilibrium statisticalphysics and correspondinglinear irreversible processes.The book grew out of lecturesgiven over many years at thegraduate level in Paris, and is

very pedagogical, providing cases and easily accessibleknowledge in well written chapters.’

Hubert Saleur, University of Southern California


2009 | 512 pages | 22 b/w line illustrations

978-0-19-955688-5, HARDBACK £46.50/$85.00Pottier: Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics

Random Processes inPhysics and Finance

Melvin Lax, Wei Cai, and Min xu, all

at City University of New York

‘Other departures from traditional mathematicalfinance texts make Lax’s book a refreshing and muchclearer read...One hopes that this text will inspire otherphysics students to continue Lax’s legacy andcontribute to this growing, diverse field.’

Physics Today



978-0-19-856776-9, HARDBACK £65.00/$115.00Lax, Cai, and Xu: Random Processes in Physics and Finance

Minority Games

Interacting agents in financial markets

Damien Challet, University of

Oxford, Matteo Marsili, ICTP,

Trieste, Italy, and Yi-Cheng

Zhang, University of Fribourg,

Switzerland

‘The book will be usefulbeyond economics, thephilosophy of economics,and the philosophy ofphysics since it deals in anelementary way with issuesof modelling. Therefore,

I recommend it as much to philosophers of sciences(looking for some novel case studies and examples) as to philosophers of physics.’

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics


2004 | 364 pages | numerous line drawings

978-0-19-856640-3, HARDBACK £67.50/$125.00Challet, Marsili, and Zhang: Minority Games

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Computational Complexity andStatistical Physics

Edited by allon Percus, UCLA,

Gabriel Istrate, Los Alamos

National Laboratory, and

Cristopher Moore, University

of New Mexico

Computational Complexity and Statistical Physics will serve as a standard referenceand pedagogical aid tostatistical physics methods in computer science, with aparticular focus on phase

transitions in combinatorial problems.

Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity

2006 | 382 pages | numerous line drawings | OUP USA

978-0-19-517738-1, PAPERBACK £38.00/$60.00Percus, Istrate, and Moore: Computational Complexity and Statistical Physics

Monte Carlo Methods in StatisticalPhysics

M. E. J. Newman, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA,

and G. T. Barkema, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

This book provides an introduction to the use of MonteCarlo computer simulation methods suitable forbeginning graduate students and beyond. It is suitablefor a course text for physics or chemistry departmentsor for self-teaching.

1999 | 496 pages | 1 halftone | numerous line figures Clarendon Press

978-0-19-851797-9, PAPERBACK £52.50/$105.00Newman and Barkema: Monte Carlo Methods in Statistical Physics

Finite Elements

An Introduction to the Method and Error Estimation

Ivo Babuska, University of

Texas at Austin, John

Whiteman, Brunel University,

and Theofanis Strouboulis,

Texas A&M University

Computational modelling isthe process of representingsome activity, for example aphysical happening, first by a mathematical model andthen of solving the modelusing a numerical technique

such as the finite element method. Both parts of thisprocess involve approximations. As a result errorestimation has to be employed to assess the reliabilityof the computational modelling process. This bookaddresses the verification of the numerical methods, in this case finite elements methods, involved in theprocess, by analysing the finite element errors. Theunique feature of the book is that it brings togetherboth theoretical error analysis and the computedsolutions, highlighting their interplay.

November 2010 | 336 pages | 99 b/w line illustrations

978-0-19-850670-6, PAPERBACK £29.95/$49.95978-0-19-850669-0, HARDBACK £60.00/$89.95Babuska, Whiteman, and Strouboulis: Finite Elements

Thermoelasticity withFinite Wave Speeds

Józef Ignaczak, Polish Academy

of Sciences, and Martin Ostoja-

Starzewski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Generalized dynamicthermoelasticity is a vital area of research incontinuum mechanics, freeof the classical paradox ofinfinite propagation speedsof thermal signals in Fourier-type heat conduction, yetthis book, which aims toprovide a point of referencein the field, is the firstmonograph on the subjectsince the 1970s. It focuses

on dynamic thermoelasticity governed by hyperbolicequations, and, in particular, on theories with one ortwo relaxation times. The mathematical aspects of thetheories—existence and uniqueness theorems, domainof influence theorems, convolutional variationalprinciples—as well as the methods for variousinitial/boundary value problems are explained and illustrated in detail and several applications of generalized thermoelasticity are reviewed.

Oxford Mathematical Monographs

2009 | 432 pages | 26 illustrations

978-0-19-954164-5, HARDBACK £70.00/$130.00Ignaczak and Ostoja-Starzewski: Thermoelasticity with Finite Wave Speeds

Introduction to Reactive Gas Dynamics

raymond Brun, CNRS and

Université de Provence, Marseille

Many actual technological problems require theknowledge of the physical and chemical phenomenaand processes taking place in high energy gas flows.This book presents an introductory analysis, theoreticaland experimental, of these media, highlighting boththeir fundamental characteristics and applied aspects.

2009 | 432 pages | 171 line and 5 halftone illustrations 4 colour images

978-0-19-955268-9, HARDBACK £51.50/$90.00Brun: Introduction to Reactive Gas Dynamics

Multiscale Methods

Bridging the Scales in Scienceand Engineering

Edited by Jacob Fish,

Rensselaer Polytechnic

Institute

Small scale features andprocesses occurring at ananometer andfemtoseconds scales have a profound impact on whathappens at a larger scale and over extensive period of time. This text reflects the state-of-art in multiscale

mathematics, modelling and simulations and addressescurrent challenges through a series of edited chapterswritten by leading experts in the field.

2009 | 624 pages | 168 BW line and 24 colour line illustrations 1 halftone

978-0-19-923385-4, HARDBACK £57.00/$90.00Fish: Multiscale Methods

Numerical Methods for NonlinearElliptic Differential Equations

A Synopsis

Klaus Boehmer, University

of Marburg

Nonlinear elliptic problemsplay an increasinglyimportant role inMathematics, Science andEngineering, creating anexciting interplay betweenthe subjects. This is the firstand only book to prove in asystematic and unifying way,stability, convergence and

computing results for the different numerical methodsfor nonlinear elliptic problems. The proofs uselinearization, compact perturbation of the coerciveprincipal parts, or monotone operator techniques, and approximation theory.

Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computation

October 2010 | 776 pages | 67 b&w line illustrations

978-0-19-957704-0, HARDBACK £79.50/$150.00Boehmer: Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Elliptic Differential Equations



Complex Variables for Scientists and Engineers

An Introduction

richard Norton, University of California, Los Angeles

Edited by Ernest S. abers , University of California, Los Angeles

Norton’s Complex Variables does not assume any prior knowledge of complexnumbers or functions, and is therefore suitable for a first course in the subject forundergraduate students who have had an introductory course in the standardcalculus of real variables. Those who want to see the mathematics done carefully,and who are looking for more than a ‘cook-book’ treatment that presents the basictechniques without exploring all the nooks and crannies of the subject, will findmany sub-sections of the book especially satisfying. The preface suggests how toextract a bare-bones course for those in a hurry, without losing sight of the beauty and depth of the subjects.

July 2010 | 464 pages | 79 b&w line illustrations


Traces and Determinants ofPseudodifferential Operators

Simon Scott, King’s College

London

Providing a broad account of the theory of traces and determinants onalgebras of differential andpseudodifferential operatorsover compact manifolds, this text is the first to dealwith the general theory,encompassing a number ofthe principle applications

and backed up by specific computations which set outin detail to newcomers the nuts-and-bolts of the basictheory. Both the microanalytic approach to traces anddeterminants via pseudodifferential operator theoryand the more computational approach directed byapplications in geometric analysis, are developed in a general framework that will be of interest tomathematicians and physicists in a number of different fields.

Oxford Mathematical Monographs

September 2010 | 696 pages

978-0-19-856836-0, HARDBACK £75.00/$130.00Scott: Traces and Determinants of Pseudodifferential Operators

Riemann Surfaces

Simon Donaldson, Imperial

College, London

An authoritative butaccessible text on onedimensional complexmanifolds or Riemannsurfaces. Dealing with themain results on Riemannsurfaces from a variety ofpoints of view, it pullstogether material fromglobal analysis, topology,

and algebraic geometry, and covers the essentialmathematical methods and tools.

Oxford Graduate Texts in Mathematics No. 22

March 2011 | 256 pages | 46 line diagrams

978-0-19-960674-0, PAPERBACK £27.50/$49.50978-0-19-852639-1, HARDBACK £55.00/$99.00Donaldson: Riemann Surfaces

Differential Geometry

Bundles, Connections, Metrics and Curvature

Clifford Henry Taubes, Harvard University

Bundles, connections, metrics & curvature are thelingua franca of modern differential geometry &theoretical physics. Supplying graduate students in mathematics or theoretical physics with thefundamentals of these objects, & providing numerousexamples, the book would suit a one-semester courseon the subject of bundles and the associated geometry


March 2011 | 240 pages | 2 black and white illustrations

978-0-19-960587-3, PAPERBACK £27.50/$55.00978-0-19-960588-0, HARDBACK £55.00/$99.00Taubes: Differential Geometry

Analytical Mechanics

An Introduction

antonio Fasano, Universita di

Firenze, and Stefano Marmi,

Scuola Normale Superiore,

Pisa, and Beatrice Pelloni ,

University of Reading

Is the solar system stable? Isthere a unifying ‘economy’principle in mechanics? Howcan a pointmass be describedas a ‘wave’? This book offersstudents an understanding of the most relevant and far

reaching results of the theory of Analytical Mechanics,including plenty of examples, exercises, and solvedproblems.



978-0-19-850802-1, HARDBACK £57.50/$109.99Fasano and Marmi: Analytical Mechanics

NEW EDIT IO N

Analytical Mechanics for Relativity and Quantum Mechanics

SECOND EDITION

Oliver Johns, San Francisco State University

An innovative and mathematically sound treatment of the foundations of analytical mechanics and therelation of classical mechanics to relativity andquantum theory. It treats time as a transformablecoordinate, and so moves the teaching of classicalmechanics out of the nineteenth century and into the modern relativistic era. It also presents classicalmechanics in a way designed to assist the student’stransition to quantum theory.


May 2011 | 692 pages | 89 b/w line drawings

978-0-19-100162-8, HARDBACK £49.95/$99.00Johns: Analytical Mechanics for Relativity and Quantum Mechanics

The Many Facets ofGeometry

A Tribute to Nigel Hitchin

Edited by Oscar Garcia-

Prada, Consejo Superior de

Investigaciones Cientificas,

Madrid, Jean Pierre

Bourguignon, Institut des

Hautes Etudes Scientifiques,

France, and Simon Salamon,

Politecnico de Torino, Italy

Few people have provedmore influential in the field of differential and algebraicgeometry, and in showing

how this links with mathematical physics, than NigelHitchin. Oxford University’s Savilian Professor ofGeometry has made fundamental contributions inareas as diverse as: spin geometry, instanton andmonopole equations, twistor theory, symplecticgeometry of moduli spaces, integrables systems, andmany more. The chapters in this fascinating volume,written by some of the greats in their fields (includingfour Fields Medalists), show how Hitchin’s ideas haveimpacted on a wide variety of subjects.

July 2010 | 456 pages | 20 black and white line illustrations

978-0-19-953492-0, HARDBACK £49.95/$99.00Garcia-Prada, Bourguignon, and Salamon: The Many Facets of Geometry

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Solved Problems in Classical Mechanics

Analytical and Numerical Solutions with Comments

O.L. de Lange and J. Pierrus, both at University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

‘The writing is succinct and clear and the comments often bring out the relevanceof the problem to a phenomenon of current interest as well as points of historicalimportance. The problems are varied and well chosen.’

A.D. Buckingham, Cambridge University

Apart from an introductory chapter giving a brief summary of Newtonian andLagrangian mechanics, this book consists entirely of questions and solutions ontopics in classical mechanics that will be encountered in undergraduate andgraduate courses. These include one-, two-, and three- dimensional motion; linearand nonlinear oscillations; energy, potentials, momentum, and angular momentum; spherically symmetricpotentials; multi-particle systems; rigid bodies; translation and rotation of the reference frame; the relativityprinciple and some of its consequences. The solutions are followed by a set of comments intended to stimulateinductive reasoning and provide additional information of interest.

May 2010 | 608 pages | 472 b&w line illustrations


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Solitons, Instantons, and Twistors

Maciej Dunajski, University of

Cambridge

The book provides a self-contained and accessibleintroduction to elementarytwistor theory; a technique for solvingdifferential equations inapplied mathematics andtheoretical physics. It startswith an introduction tointegrability of ordinary and

partial differential equations. Subsequent chaptersexplore symmetry analysis, gauge theory, gravitationalinstantons, twistor transforms, and anti-self-dualityequations. The three appendices cover basic differentialgeometry, complex manifold theory and the exteriordifferential system.


2009 | 374 pages | 35 illustrations

978-0-19-857063-9, PAPERBACK £34.95/$65.00978-0-19-857062-2, HARDBACK £65.00/$125.00Dunajski: Solitons, Instantons, and Twistors

Mathematical Models of Biological Systems

Hugo van den Berg,

University of Warwick

This interdisciplinarytextbook provides a practicalintroduction to basicmathematical modellingmethodology and analysis. Itcovers a variety of biologicalapplications and uses thesetopics in turn to highlightkey components in the art of modelling.

November 2010 | 256 pages | 170 b&w illustrations

978-0-19-958218-1, PAPERBACK £27.50/$49.50978-0-19-958219-8, HARDBACK £65.00/$117.00van den Berg: Mathematical Models of Biological Systems

Radiation and Climate

Ilias Vardavas, University of Crete,

Greece, and Frederic Taylor,

University of Oxford

‘A comprehensive reference, clear and concise... The book supplementsgood descriptions of physicalconcepts with equations,providing the hands-onreader with the tools forutilizing these concepts intheir own research.’

Bulletin of the AmericanMeteorological Society


2007 | 512 pages | 194 b&w line drawings and 17 b&whalftones

978-0-19-922747-1, HARDBACK £77.50/$150.00Vardavas and Taylor: Radiation and Climate

Introducing Biological Energetics

How Energy and Information Control the Living World

Norman W. H. Cheetham,

University of the Sunshine

Coast, Queensland, Australia

This novel, interdisciplinarytext presents biologicalunderstanding in terms of general underlyingprinciples, treating energy as the overarching themeand emphasizing the all-pervading influence ofenergy transformation

in every process, both living and non-living.

October 2010 | 352 pages | numerous illustrations

978-0-19-957593-0, PAPERBACK £29.95/$55.95978-0-19-959371-2, HARDBACK £60.00/$110.00Cheetham: Introducing Biological Energetics

Molecular Orbitals of Transition Metal Complexes

Yves Jean, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay,

France

Translated by Colin Marsden, Université Paul Sabatier,

Toulouse, France

‘This book is a very good supplement to the author’sprevious textbook on the orbitals of organic molecules.It will easily reach the pedagogical aim of giving thestudent a theoretical method of analysis that relies onsome simple ideas.’

Angewandte Chemie

2005 | 288 pages | numerous tables and line drawings

978-0-19-853093-0, HARDBACK £55.00/$99.00Jean: Molecular Orbitals of Transition Metal Complexes

Chemical Dynamics in CondensedPhases

Relaxation, Transfer and Reactions in CondensedMolecular Systems

abraham Nitzan, Tel Aviv

University

‘Beautifully and clearlywritten, describingmathematics in necessarydetail without overloadingthe reader, and very neatlyand concisely explainingphysics of the describedphenomena.’

European Journal ofChemical Physics andPhysical Chemistry



978-0-19-852979-8, HARDBACK £59.95/$109.99Nitzan: Chemical Dynamics in Condensed Phases



Roger Penrose: Collected Works

Six Volume Set

roger Penrose, Mathematical Institute, Oxford

Professor Sir Roger Penrose is one of the trulyoriginal thinkers of our time. He has made several remarkable contributions to science, from quantum physics and theories of humanconsciousness to relativity theory andobservations on the structure of the universe. Nowhis work, spanning fifty years of science, with overfive thousand pages and more than three hundredpapers, has been collected together for the firsttime and arranged chronologically over sixvolumes, each with an introduction from theauthor. Where relevant, individual papers alsocome with specific introductions or notes.

October 2010 | 5,104 pages

978-0-19-921944-5 £600.00/$1250.00


Volume 1: 1953–1967


October 2010 | 848 pages

978-0-19-921936-0, HARDBACK £130.00/$260.00


Volume 2: 1968–1975

roger Penrose, Maths Institute, Oxford


978-0-19-921937-7, HARDBACK £130.00/$260.00


Volume 3: 1976–1980



978-0-19-921938-4, HARDBACK £130.00/$260.00


Volume 4: 1981–1989



978-0-19-921939-1, HARDBACK £130.00/$260.00


Volume 5: 1990–1996



978-0-19-921940-7, HARDBACK £130.00/$260.00


Volume 6: 1997–2003



978-0-19-921941-4, HARDBACK £130.00/$260.00


Molecular Electromagnetism: A Computational Chemistry Approach

Stephan P. a. Sauer, University of Copenhagen,

Denmark

This is a textbook on the theory and calculation of molecular electromagnetic and spectroscopicproperties designed for a one-semester course withlectures and exercise classes. The idea of the book is to provide thorough background knowledge for thecalculation of electromagnetic and spectroscopicproperties of molecules with modern quantumchemical software packages.


June 2011 | 316 pages

978-0-19-957539-8, HARDBACK £45.00/$90.00Sauer: Molecular Electromagnetism: A Computational Chemistry Approach

Theories of MolecularReaction Dynamics

The Microscopic Foundation ofChemical Kinetics

Niels E. Henriksen and

Flemming Y. Hansen, both

at Technical University of

Denmark, Lyngby

This book deals with acentral topic at the interfaceof chemistry and physics—the understanding of howthe transformation of mattertakes place at the atomiclevel. Building on the laws ofphysics, the book focuses on

the theoretical framework for predicting the outcomeof chemical reactions.


2008 | 392 pages | numerous figures

978-0-19-920386-4, HARDBACK £48.50/$90.00Henriksen and Hansen: Theories of Molecular Reaction Dynamics

The Equilibrium Theoryof InhomogeneousPolymers

Glenn Fredrickson, University of California, Santa

Barbara


2005 | 456 pages | 1 colour plate | 72 line drawings 15 halftones

978-0-19-856729-5, HARDBACK £85.00/$150.00Fredrickson: The Equilibrium Theory of Inhomogeneous Polymers

Molecules and Models

The molecular structures of main group elementcompounds

arne Haaland, University of

Oslo

Molecules and Models describesthe structures of molecules,in other words, their shapeand size, as determined byexperiments or advancedtheoretical calculations andgives an introduction to thesimple concepts thatchemists use to interpretthese structures.

2008 | 336 pages | 128 b&w line drawings and 2 b&w halftones

978-0-19-923535-3, HARDBACK £45.00/$85.00Haaland: Molecules and Models

Maximum Entropy and Ecology

A Theory of Abundance, Distribution, andEnergetics

John Harte, University of California, Berkeley

The author provides readers with the concepts andpractical tools required to understand the maximumentropy principle, and applies it to an understanding of ecological patterns. The theory developed predictsrealistic forms for all metrics of ecology that describepatterns in the distribution, abundance, and energeticsof species.

Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution

June 2011 | 336 pages | 60 black and white illustrations

978-0-19-959342-2, PAPERBACK £29.95/$59.95978-0-19-959341-5, HARDBACK £60.00/$110.00Harte: Maximum Entropy and Ecology

Isochronous Systems

Francesco Calogero, University of

Rome “La Sapienza”

2008 | 264 pages | 2 black and white line drawings

978-0-19-953528-6, HARDBACK £45.00/$80.00Calogero: Isochronous Systems

Elementary Scattering Theory

For X-ray and Neutron Users

D.S. Sivia, St John’s College,

Oxford

The opportunities for doingscattering experiments atsynchrotron and neutronfacilities have grown rapidlyin recent years and are set to continue to do so into the foreseeable future. This text provides a basicunderstanding of how thesetechniques enable the

structure and dynamics of materials to be studied at the atomic and molecular level. Although mathematicscannot be avoided in a theoretical discussion, the aimhas been to write a book that most scientists will stillfind approachable.

January 2011 | 216 pages | 200 line illustrations

978-0-19-922868-3, PAPERBACK £19.99/$35.95978-0-19-922867-6, HARDBACK £39.95/$71.95Sivia: Elementary Scattering Theory

The Pendulum

A Case Study in Physics

Gregory L. Baker, Bryn Athyn

College of the New Church,

Pennsylvania, and James a.

Blackburn, Wilfrid Laurier

University, Ontario

‘One of the delightful aspectsof this book is its attention tohistorical detail. Not onlydoes this add greatly to theenjoyment of reading it, italso gives a vivid impressionof progress in our knowledge

of the physical world, all too often absent in morefocused and specialized works.’

Contemporary Physics

2008 | 304 pages | 213 figures and 15 halftones

978-0-19-955768-4, PAPERBACK £27.50/$50.00978-0-19-856754-7, HARDBACK £62.50/$145.00Baker and Blackburn: The Pendulum

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Cognitive Biology

Dealing with Information from Bacteria to Minds

Gennaro auletta, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome

Providing a new conceptual scaffold for further research in biology and cognition, this book introduces thenew field of Cognitive Biology, treating developing organisms as information processors which use cognitionto control and modify their environments. Any organism is a complex system that can survive only if it is able to maintain its internal order against the spontaneous tendency for disruption. Therefore, it is forced to monitor and control its environment and so to establish feedback circuits resulting in co-adaptation.Cognitive and biological processes are shown to be inseparable.

July 2011 | 944 pages | 332 b/w line and halftone illustrations | 8pp colour plate section

978-0-19-960848-5, HARDBACK £99.50/$200.00

From Strange Simplicity to Complex Familiarity

A Treatise on Matter, Information, Life and Thought

Manfred Eigen, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, Germany

This book presents a vivid argument for the almost lost idea of a unity of all naturalsciences. This unity engenders the ‘complex familiarity’ of the world in which welive and which can be described in ‘strangely simple’ theoretical terms, leading tosurprising new insights into the mysterious phenomenon of life.

October 2011 | 450 pages | 250 b/w line and halftone illustrations

978-0-19-857021-9, HARDBACK £55.00/$98.00

Brownian Motion

Fluctuations, Dynamics, andApplications

robert M. Mazo, University

of Oregon, USA

Brownian motion—theincessant motion of smallparticles suspended in afluid—is an important topic in statistical physics andphysical chemistry. Thisbook studies its origin inmolecular scale fluctuations,its description in terms ofrandom process theory and

also in terms of statistical mechanics.


2008 | 304 pages

978-0-19-955644-1, PAPERBACK £35.00/$70.00978-0-19-851567-8, HARDBACK £90.00/$150.00Mazo: Brownian Motion

NEW EDIT IO N

Modern Fortran Explained

FOURTH EDITION

Michael Metcalf, Formerly of

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland,

John reid, JKR Associates,

Oxfordshire, and Malcolm

Cohen, The Numerical

Algorithms Group Ltd.,

Oxfordshire

A clear and thoroughdescription of the latestversions of Fortran byleading experts in the field. It is intended for new and

existing users of the language, and for all thoseinvolved in scientific and numerical computing. It is suitable as a textbook for teaching and as a handy reference for practitioners.

Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computation

March 2011 | 512 pages

978-0-19-960142-4, PAPERBACK £34.95/$70.00978-0-19-960141-7, HARDBACK £80.00/$160.00Metcalf, Reid, and Cohen: Modern Fortran Explained

Data Analysis

A Bayesian Tutorial

SECOND EDITION

Devinderjit Sivia, Rutherford

Appleton Laboratory and St

Catherine’s College, Oxford,

and John Skilling, Maximum

Entropy Data Consultants

‘One of the strengths of thisbook is the author’s ability tomotivate the use of Bayesianmethods through simple yeteffective examples.’

Katie St. Clair, MAA Reviews

2006 | 264 pages | 68 line drawings + 1 halftone

978-0-19-856832-2, PAPERBACK £27.50/$50.00978-0-19-856831-5, HARDBACK £59.50/$120.00Sivia and Skilling: Data Analysis



Elasticity and Geometry

From hair curls to the non-linear response of shells

Basile audoly, CNRS and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France, and

Yves Pomeau, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and University of Arizona,

Tucson, USA

‘A most welcome addition to the literature with a refreshingly new approach, firstin that it discusses in depth how the differential geometry of surfaces is connectedwith the theory of elastic plates and shells, second in that, as a consequence of thisperspective, it sheds new light and understanding on practical problems.’

Philippe Ciarlet, City University of Hong Kong

We experience elasticity everywhere in everyday life: straightening or curling ofhairs, irreversible deformations of car bodies after a crash, and bouncing of elastic balls (ping-pong, soccer). In the technological domain, many bulk materials are coated with thin layers that may be subject todelamination, another complex process where elasticity is important. This book covers several modernaspects of the venerable field of elasticity theory. It applies general methods of classical analysis includingadvanced nonlinear aspects to derive detailed, fully explicit solutions to specific problems. These theoreticalconcepts are discussed in connection with experiments. The matter is self-contained; the prerequisites arecalculus at the undergraduate level. This book can serve as a concrete introduction to nonlinear methods inscience.

June 2010 | 600 pages | 150 line | 30 halftone b/w illustrations

978-0-19-850625-6, HARDBACK £75.00/$129.50

The Oxford Handbook of Applied Bayesian Analysis

Edited by anthony O’ Hagan, University of Sheffield, and Mike West, Duke

University, USA

Bayesian analysis has developed rapidly in applications in the last two decades andresearch in Bayesian methods remains dynamic and fast-growing. This Handbookexplores contemporary Bayesian analysis across a variety of application areas.Chapters written by leading exponents of applied Bayesian analysis showcase the scientific ease and natural application of Bayesian modelling, and presentsolutions to real, engaging, societally important and demanding problems.

Oxford Handbooks in Mathematics

March 2010 | 889 pages | 200 illustrations

978-0-19-954890-3, HARDBACK £85.00/$150.00

Measurements and their Uncertainties

A practical guide to modern error analysis

Ifan Hughes, University of Durham, and Thomas Hase, University of

Warwick

This short book is primarily intended to be used in undergraduate laboratories in the physical sciences. No prior knowledge of statistics is assumed, with thenecessary concepts introduced where needed, and illustrated graphically. Incontrast to traditional treatments a combination of spreadsheet and calculus-basedapproaches is used. Error analysis is introduced at a level accessible to schoolleavers, and carried through to research level. The emphasis throughout is onpractical strategies to be adopted in the laboratory. Error calculation andpropagation is presented though a series of rules-of-thumb, look-up tables and approaches amenable to computer analysis.

July 2010 | 152 pages | 75 b/w line illustrations



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Long-Range Interacting Systems

Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School:Volume 90, August 2008

Edited by Thierry Dauxois, Ecole Normale Supérieure de

Lyon & CNRS, Stefano ruffo, Università di Firenze, and

Leticia F Cugliandolo, Université Pierre et Marie Curie,

Paris VI, France

This book collects lecture courses and seminars given at the Les Houches Summer School 2008 onLong-Range Interacting Systems. Leading scientists in different fields of mathematics and physics present their views about this fast growing andinterdisciplinary field of research, by venturing upon fundamental problems of probability, transport theory, equilibrium and non-equilibrium statisticalmechanics, condensed matter physics, astrophysics and cosmology, physics ofplasmas, hydrodynamics. It reviews the state of the art developments in this fieldand represents a necessary background of future studies. All chapters are writtenin a pedagogical perspective, making the book accessible to master and PhDstudents and all researchers willing to enter this field.

January 2010 | 608 pages | 200 b/w illustrations | 20 b/w halftones

978-0-19-957462-9, HARDBACK £42.50/$79.95

Exact Methods in Low-dimensionalStatistical Physics and QuantumComputing

Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School:Volume 89, July 2008

Edited by Jesper Jacobsen, LPTMS, CNRS, Université

Paris Sud, Orsay, Stephane Ouvry, LPTMS, CNRS,

Université Paris Sud, Orsay, Vincent Pasquier, SPhT,

CEA, Saclay, Didina Serban, SPhT, CEA, Saclay, and

Leticia Cugliandolo, LPTHE, Université Paris VI

Recent years have shown important and spectacularconvergences between techniques traditionally used in theoretical physics andmethods emerging from modern mathematics (combinatorics, probability theory,topology, algebraic geometry, etc). These techniques, and in particular those oflow-dimensional statistical models, are instrumental in improving ourunderstanding of emerging fields, such as quantum computing and cryptography,complex systems, and quantum fluids. This book sets these issues into a larger and more coherent theoretical perspective than is currently available.

April 2010 | 664 pages | 172 line drawings | 23 halftones

978-0-19-957461-2, HARDBACK £45.00/$85.00

Modern Perspectives in Lattice QCD: quantum field theory and high performance computing

Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 93, August 2009

Edited by Laurent Lellouch, CNRS and Université Aix-Marseille II, France,

rainer Sommer, DESY, Zeuthen, Germany, Benjamin Svetitsky, Tel Aviv University,

Israel, anastassios Vladikas, INFN-Tor Vergata Division, Rome, Italy, and Leticia F.

Cugliandolo, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6

The aim of the book is to familiarize the new generation of PhD students andpostdoctoral fellows with the principles and methods of modern lattice fieldtheory, which aims to resolve fundamental, non-perturbative questions aboutQCD without uncontrolled approximations.

July 2011 | 724 pages | 135 b/w line illustrations

978-0-19-969160-9, HARDBACK £47.50/$85.00

Ultracold Gases and QuantumInformation

Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer Schoolin Singapore: Volume 91, July 2009

Edited by Christian Miniatura, National University of

Singapore, Leong-Chuan Kwek, National University

of Singapore, Martial Ducloy, CNRS, France, Benoît

Grémaud, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, France,

Berthold-Georg Englert, National University of

Singapore, Leticia Cugliandolo, Université Pierre et

Marie Curie, Paris VI, France, artur Ekert, University of

Oxford, and Kok Khoo Phua, Nanyang Technological

University

In recent years, there has been much synergy between the exciting areas ofquantum information science and ultracold atoms. This volume, as part of theproceedings for the XCI session of Les Houches School of Physics (held for the first time outside Europe in Singapore) brings together experts in both fields. The topics range from Bose Einstein Condensates to Degenerate Fermi Gases tofundamental concepts in Quantum Information Sciences, including some specialtopics on Quantum Hall Effects, Quantum Phase Transition, Interactions inQuantum Fluids, Disorder and Interference Phenomenoma, Trapped Ions andAtoms, and Quantum Optical Devices.

April 2011 | 700 pages | 225 b/w line illustrations

978-0-19-960365-7, HARDBACK £47.50/$85.00

New Trends in the Physics andMechanics of Biological Systems

Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School:Volume 92, July 2009

Edited by Martine Ben amar, Université Pierre et Marie

Curie and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, alain

Goriely, Oxford University, Martin Michael Müller,

Université Paul Verlaine - Metz, and Leticia Cugliandolo,

Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris

These lecture notes present the latest trends andchallenges in the modelling of biological systems froma mechanics perspective. They cover both fluid and solid mechanics, themodelling of growth in biological systems, and present the application of physicalmethods for the modelling of systems in cellular biology, physiology, andmorphogenesis.

June 2011 | 368 pages | 150 b/w line and halftone illustrations

978-0-19-960583-5, HARDBACK £40.00/$85.00

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L E C T U r E N O T E S O F T H E L E S H O U C H E S S U MME r S C H O O L

In Defence of ObjectiveBayesianism

Jon Williamson, University of Kent

Objective Bayesianism is a methodological theory thatis currently applied in statistics, philosophy, artificialintelligence, physics and other sciences. This bookdevelops the formal and philosophical foundations ofthe theory, at a level accessible to a graduate studentwith some familiarity with mathematical notation.

May 2010 | 192 pages

978-0-19-922800-3, HARDBACK £44.95/$85.00Williamson: In Defence of Objective Bayesianism

Statistics and Scientific Method

An Introduction for Students and Researchers

Peter J. Diggle, Lancaster University; Johns Hopkins

University and Columbia University, and amanda G.

Chetwynd, Lancaster University

An antidote to technique-orientated approaches, thistext avoids the recipe-book style, giving the reader aclear understanding of how core statistical ideas ofexperimental design, modelling, and data analysis areintegral to the scientific method. No prior knowledgeof statistics is required and a range of scientificdisciplines are covered.

July 2011 | 208 pages | 82 line illustrations | 11 b/w halftones 4 colour plates

978-0-19-954319-9, PAPERBACK £19.95/$34.95978-0-19-954318-2, HARDBACK £50.00/$99.00Diggle and Chetwynd: Statistics and Scientific Method

The Oxford Handbook of Nonlinear Filtering

Edited by Dan Crisan,

Imperial College London,

and Boris rozovskii, Brown

University, USA

The Oxford Handbook ofNonlinear Filtering is acomprehensively writtensource for the subject. Itcontains results from theclassical theory of the subjectand also recent ones withcontributions from 58

authors. The contributions are collated into ten partsranging from the foundations of nonlinear filtering,connections to stochastic partial differential equations,stability and asymptotic analysis, estimation andcontrol, special topic to approximations theory andnumerical methods for solving the nonlinear filteringproblem including particle methods.

Oxford Handbooks in Mathematics

February 2011 | 1,088 pages | 32 black and white illustrations

978-0-19-953290-2, HARDBACK £110.00/$220.00Crisan and Rozovskii: The Oxford Handbook of Nonlinear Filtering


Nuclear & Plasma Physics

HAVE YOU SEEN?

Blundell:Magnetism in Condensed Matter on page 4 in Oxford Master Series

Dorogovtsev: Lectures on Complex Networks on page 3 in Oxford Master Series

Krauth: Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations on page 3 in Oxford Master Series

Maggiore: A Modern Introduction to Quantum Field Theory on page 3 in Oxford Master Series

Sethna: Statistical Mechanics on page 3 in Oxford Master Series


NEW IN PaPErBaC K

The Physics of Inertial Fusion

Beam Plasma Interaction, Hydrodynamics, Hot Dense Matter

Stefano atzeni, Università

di Roma “La Sapienza” and

INFM, Italy, and Jürgen Meyer-

ter-Vehn, Technical

University of Munich,

Germany

This book is about fusionenergy, burning hydrogenwhich is available fromwater. It is the energy sourceof the sun. It producesneither greenhouse gases

leading to global warming nor long-lived nuclear waste.Here we describe how to use powerful lasers to ignitethe hydrogen fuel. There are presently two large laserfacilities under construction to demonstrate that thismethod works. This book discusses the physics of thisfuture energy source and addresses people who workon it or want to understand its technical basis.


2009 | 480 pages | 237 line drawings and halftones

978-0-19-956801-7, PAPERBACK £48.50/$85.00978-0-19-856264-1, HARDBACK £149.95/$250.00Atzeni and Meyer-ter-Vehn: The Physics of Inertial Fusion

Plasma Spectroscopy

Takashi Fujimoto, Kyoto University,

Japan

‘...the book is actually very readable considering theheavy theory and mathematics associated with thetopic. The book has a good technical depth...it is a good book for graduates.’

IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine


2004 | 300 pages | numerous figures | Clarendon Press

978-0-19-853028-2, HARDBACK £110.00/$225.00Fujimoto: Plasma Spectroscopy

The Quest for aFusion EnergyReactor

An Insider’s Accountof the INTORWorkshop

Weston Stacey,

Georgia Institute of

Technology

Based on the journal of one of the principalparticipants, this book provides a history of theIAEA INTOR Workshop (1978–88) during whichhundreds of fusion scientists and engineerscollaborated to define an experimental fusionenergy reactor. The INTOR Workshop led to thepresent international ITER project, a collaborativeeffort to construct the first fusion energy reactor.

May 2010 | 198 pages | 8 line drawings & 10 halftones OUP USA

978-0-19-973384-2, HARDBACK £14.99/$24.95

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