Equilibrium statistical mechanics of lattice models theoretical and mathematical physics ebook lavis david a amazonca kindle store. Equilibrium statistical mechanics of lattice models february 2015 edition theoretical and mathematical physics publisher springer science business media dordrecht isbn isbn 978 94 017 . Most interesting and difficult problems in equilibrium statistical mechanics concern models which exhibit phase transitions for graduate students and more experienced researchers this book provides an invaluable reference source of approximate and exact solutions for a comprehensive range of such models. Equilibrium statistical mechanics of lattice models series theoretical and mathematical physics from one author of the successful two volume work on statistical mechanics by lavis and bell . Part i contains background material on classical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics together with a classification and survey of lattice models the geometry of phase transitions is described and scaling theory is used to introduce critical exponents and scaling laws an introduction is given to finite size scaling conformal invariance and schramm loewner evolution