Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity (free ebook)

Humanity has generated too much information for me to absorb. I'll never be able to learn it all. There, I finally admitted it.

I've a print copy of this, the content is quite good but rather marred by the annoying typsetting everything is all jammed in right up to the marigns (something which is sadly true across this whole series of great books).<p>The problems however are absolutely fantastic, a great mix of computational and theoretical which go from half an hours fun to really unanswered problems. Fun fun fun! I highly recommend trying them and referring to the text as needed.

Stat mech is basically the math of 'complex systems'. Evolution, neural processes, economics --- it's all coming out as stat mech in one way or another. Thus familiarity with stat mech is important if you have any interest in these areas.

Nothing like a little light reading before bed ;)<p>/math guy