This volume is a collection of lecture notes for six of the ten courses given in Buzios, Brazil by prominent probabilists at the 2010 Clay Mathematics Institute

Charles M. (Chuck) Newman has been a leader in Probability Theory and Statistical Physics for nearly half a century. This three-volume set is a celebration of t

The first six chapters of this volume present the author's 'predictive' or information theoretic' approach to statistical mechanics, in which the basic probabil

This book brings a reader to the cutting edge of several important directions of the contemporary probability theory, which in many cases are strongly motivated

A self-contained, mathematical introduction to the driving ideas in equilibrium statistical mechanics, studying important models in detail.