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Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Physics (Cambridge Lecture Notes in Physics) (1st Edition) by John L. Cardy, Peter Goddard Ph., Julia Yeomans Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 1996 ISBN-10: 0-521-49959-3 / 0521499593 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-49959-0 / 9780521499590 This text provides a thoroughly modern graduate-level introduction to the theory of critical behaviour. Beginning with a brief review of phase transitions in simple systems and of mean field theory, the text then goes on to introduce the core ideas of the renormalization group. Following chapters co |