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Information, Physics, and Computation
Marc Mezard
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Description for Information, Physics, and Computation
Hardcover. A very active field of research is emerging at the frontier of statistical physics, theoretical computer science/discrete mathematics, and coding/information theory. This book sets up a common language and pool of concepts, accessible to students and researchers from each of these fields. Series: Oxford Graduate Texts. Num Pages: 592 pages, 140 line drawings. BIC Classification: GPF; PH; PHS; UYA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 177 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1312.
This book presents a unified approach to a rich and rapidly evolving research domain at the interface between statistical physics, theoretical computer science/discrete mathematics, and coding/information theory. It is accessible to graduate students and researchers without a specific training in any of these fields. The selected topics include spin glasses, error correcting codes, satisfiability, and are central to each field. The approach focuses on large random instances and adopts a common probabilistic formulation in terms of graphical models. It presents message passing algorithms like belief propagation and survey propagation, and their use in decoding and constraint satisfaction solving. It ... Read more
This book presents a unified approach to a rich and rapidly evolving research domain at the interface between statistical physics, theoretical computer science/discrete mathematics, and coding/information theory. It is accessible to graduate students and researchers without a specific training in any of these fields. The selected topics include spin glasses, error correcting codes, satisfiability, and are central to each field. The approach focuses on large random instances and adopts a common probabilistic formulation in terms of graphical models. It presents message passing algorithms like belief propagation and survey propagation, and their use in decoding and constraint satisfaction solving. It ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
584
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Series
Oxford Graduate Texts
Condition
New
Weight
1312g
Number of Pages
584
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198570837
SKU
V9780198570837
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About Marc Mezard
Professor Marc Mezard CNRS Research Director at Universite de Paris Sud and Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, France Marc Mezard received his PhD in 1984. He was hired in CNRS in 1981 and became research director in 1990 at Ecole Normale Superieure. He joined the Universite Paris Sud in 2001. He spent extensive periods in Rome University, ... Read more
Reviews for Information, Physics, and Computation
`No doubt a book of highest quality.' Heiko Rieger, Saarland University `There is a growing awareness within computer science that concepts from statistical physics and information theory can provide excellent tools to study computational methods and problems. This book, by world-renowned experts in the field, provides a lucid introduction to this ... Read more