This book has its origins in two short courses given by the author in Bologna and Torino, Italy during the Fall of 1985. At that time, connections between statistical physics and the Jones polynomial
TWENTY-FIVE years have passed since the writing of this volume in its first edition.Such a long interval has inevitably made necessary a fairly thorough revision and expansion of the book for its seco
THIS final volume of the Course of Theoretical Physics deals with physical kinetics, in the wide sense of the microscopic theory of processes in systems not in statistical equilibrium. .In contrast to
