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5 “...This book is based on a set of lectures given to a mixed audience of physicists and mathematicians...”

6 “...Physicists firmly believe that the differential equations of nature should be hyperbolic so...”

7 “... working in the subject. The book is written by physicists, uses the language of physics and I am sure...”

8 “...Physicists, when modelling physical systems with a large number of degrees of freedom...”

9 “... is designed for 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate physicists taking the Low Temperature option offered at 90...”

10 “... complete survey of the progress made by both mathematicians and physicists. It will serve as an excellent...”

11 “... theoretical research or metrology in this field, but also to physicists concerned with the problems of heat...”

12 “... technology for the new generation of solid-state physicists, materials scientists, materials engineers...”

13 “... "observer-related". Both physicists and philosophers of science who reviewed the first edition considered...”

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15 “... for chemists and physicists working in thermodynamics, chemical thermodynamics, phase diagrams, biochemistry...”

16 “... of quantum theory, and the emergence of time in quantum gravity. Both physicists and philosophers of science...”

17 “..., and the emergence of time in quantum gravity. Both physicists and philosophers of science who reviewed earlier...”

18 “... context in which they occur. Intended for physicists, engineers, geoscientists, climatologists...”

19 “... physicists and philosophers of science who reviewed earlier editions considered this book a magnificent...”

20 “... circle of readers: physicists who study electronic properties of the FeAs compounds, chemists who...”