Statistical Mechanics and Statistical Methods in Theory and Application

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Critical Points and Multicritical Points....Pages 1-2
Series Expansion Approximants for Singular Functions of Many Variables....Pages 3-31
Structure and Thermodynamics of Interfaces....Pages 33-71
A Van Der Waals Fixed Point....Pages 73-81
Spin-Spin Correlation Functions for the Two-Dimensional Ising Model....Pages 83-97
Scaled Particle Theory of Hard Sphere Fluids To 1976....Pages 99-140
Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Boson Field Theory....Pages 141-164
On the Use of Determinants and their Expansions for Various Physical Problems....Pages 165-190
Ring Diagram Contribution to Electron Correlations....Pages 191-202
Fluctuations Near and Far from Equilibrium....Pages 203-218
Stochastic Equations for Classical and Quantum Distribution Functions....Pages 219-252
Stationary States and Noise in the Ballast Resistor, An Electro-Thermal Instability in a Conducting Wire....Pages 253-282
Speculations on the Intrinsic Significance of Random Interactions....Pages 283-311
A Dilation Problem in Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics....Pages 313-329
The Fractal Geometry of Percolation, Polymers and Almost Everything Else....Pages 331-342
On the Iterative Solution of a Stochastic Mapping....Pages 343-370
Theory of the Surface Contribution to the Low Temperature Specific Heat of a Semi-Infinite Solid....Pages 371-411
Optical Spectra Line Shape for Mixed Crystals....Pages 413-427
Nonadiabatic Approach to Vibronically Assisted Radiationless Transitions....Pages 429-439
The Generalized Master Equation and its Applications....Pages 441-461
Two-Dimensional Anisotropic Random Walks....Pages 463-505
Random Walks and Gamma Functions....Pages 507-519
Steady-State Kinetics of a Linear Array of Interlocking Reactions....Pages 521-557
Monte Carlo Methods of Self Replicating Macromolecules I....Pages 559-583
Combinatorial Aspects of Dynamics in Biological Systems....Pages 585-611
The Transition of Two Stranded DNA to Single Strands....Pages 613-630
Effective Behavior of Heterogeneous Media....Pages 631-644
Unstable Brownian Motion of a Bus Trip....Pages 645-667
Integration Errors in Image Reconstruction of Circularly Symmetric Objects in Computer Assisted Tomography....Pages 669-684
The “Internal Referencing” Structural Instability in an Environment Characterized by Random Variation: The Example of the N.Y.C. Banks in the Crisis of 1857....Pages 685-721
The Theory of the Glory....Pages 723-764
Exotic Matter in the Universe....Pages 765-784
Some Statistical Observations from a 75 Year Run of Sears Roebuck Catalogues....Pages 785-803
Back Matter....Pages 805-814