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Mathematical methods in classical mechanics, classical and quantum field theory, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, condensed matter, nuclear and atomic physics.

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Has the Lie group E8 really been detected experimentally?

It should be emphasized that this is not the $E_8$ of heterotic string theory or the $E_8$ gauge group in various grand unified theories. It comes out of something much more down-to-earth, namely sol …
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Where does a math person go to learn statistical mechanics?

A classic book on solvable two-dimensional models is Baxter's "Exactly Solved Models in Statistical Mechanics" now available in a new edition from Dover. The Yang-Baxter equation, of course, has many …
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Where does a math person go to learn statistical mechanics?

It's certainly not a basic book, but Itzykson and Drouffe's "Statistical Field Theory" gives a good overview of the use of quantum field theory techniques in statistical mechanics. Some of the chapte …
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Where does a math person go to learn statistical mechanics?

There are also Feynman's lecture notes: "Statistical mechanics: a set of lectures". I haven't used them myself.
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Where does a math person go to learn statistical mechanics?

McCoy and Wu's "The Two-Dimensional Ising Model" is, of course, devoted mostly to the Ising model, but one can learn a lot about statistical mechanics in general by reading it.