Download or read book Proceedings of the Fifth Mexican School on Statistical Physics, EMFE 5, Oaxtepec, Mexico, 1989 written by Francisco Ramos-Gómez and published by World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four lectures delivered to graduate students and researchers new to statistical physics at Oaxtepec, Mexico, August 1989, review the field and describe recent advances. The topics are coherent fields in disordered systems; the thermodyanmic behavior of two-dimensional vesicles; randomness, information, and complexity; and the aerodynamics of Leonardo da Vinci. Mostly double-spaced. No index. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR