Physics & Astronomy

"Several generations of scientists have been raised studying the book Spin glass theory and beyond published almost forty years ago, which presented what was then an emerging field full of promises. This volume now extends 'far beyond' these initial efforts, and provides an extensive account of the many solid branches that have grown out of the initial seeds. Many chapters cover directions that had not been anticipated, as new applications and extensions emerging from spin glass ideas are being developed by an ever growing community of researchers. This book summarizes an exciting scientific chapter in statistical mechanics and its modern applications."

"This second edition of the book, 'Finite Temperature Field Theory,' by Professor Das provides an excellent and very comprehensive introduction to thermal field theory. He explains the theory in a very clear and pedagogical way, by using the imaginary time approach, the real time formulation as well as thermofield dynamics … This second edition discusses many important topics which are not covered in other books … I highly recommend this book, written with great care and thoroughness, which will be very useful, both as a text as well as for self-study."