Statistical Physics on the Eve of the 21st Century: In Honour of J B McGuire on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

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This volume is a collection of original papers and reviews in honour of James McGuire, one of the pioneers of integrable models in statistical physics. The broad range of articles offers a timely perspective on the current status of statistical mechanics, identifying both recent results as well as future challenges. The work contains a number of overviews of standard topics such as exactly solved lattice models and their various applications in statistical physics, from models of strongly correlated electrons to the conformational properties of polymer chains. It is equally wide ranging in its coverage of new directions and developing fields. These include quantum computers, fractals and Feigenbaum scaling, proteins, DNA, random matrices and cellular automata.