The Theory of Critical Phenomena

‘Provides a thorough introduction to the use of scaling and field-theoretic techniques that have become standard equipment in many areas of physics … (jargon is kept to a minimum).‘SciTech Book News, December 1992’A niche existed for a book in the important interface between the theory of critical phenomena and the technology of field theory … it has now been most admirably filled by this volume … interesting, readable and with very clear explanations and furthermore with excellent problems at the end of each chapter - all with complete solutions … a book that can be unreservedly recommended to theoretical honours or starting graduate stuents; also toresearchers who may be seeking to fill a void in their understanding in this area.‘VM.J. Buckingham, University of Western Australia, Australian & New Zealand Physicist, Volume 30, Number 12, December 1993`The book is written very clearly and simply, which makes it accessible to anyone who passed the principal undergraduate physics courses … Teachers and students either teaching or studying phase transitions … should find this book very useful together with a number of additional sources … young researchers working in the area of phase transitions will benefit from the detailed description of the renormalization group theory.‘Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 73, Nos 1⁄2, 1993

J. J. Binney is at Oxford University.