Table of Contents

Preface 1. Basic Statistical Mechanics 2. The One-dimensional Ising Model 3. The Mean Field Model 4. Ising Model on the Bethe Lattice 5. The Spherical Model 6. Duality and Star-Triangle Transformations of Planar Ising Models 7. Square-Lattice Ising Model 8. Ice-Type Models 9. Alternative Way of Solving the Ice-Type Models 10. Square Lattice Eight-Vertex Model 11. Kagome Lattice Eight-Vertex Model 12. Potts and Ashkin-Teller Models 13. Corner Transfer Matrices 14. Hard Hexagon and Related Models 15. Elliptic Functions 16. Subsequent Developments References Supplementary References Index

About the Author

Rodney J. Baxter is Professor Emeritus at Australian National University, Canberra.