This monograph introduces advanced undergraduates and graduate students to the "many-body" theory in theoretical physics. The treatment addresses problems and solutions related to nuclear and atomic physics, the electron theory of metals, and other areas. Topics include variational methods, perturbation theory, statistical mechanics and superconductivity theory, Green functions at finite temperatures, and much more. 1972 edition. Reprint of the Academic Press, New York, 1972 edition.
Author Biography
Co-winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics, David J. Thouless, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Washington, is a Fellow of the Royal Society (United Kingdom) and the American Physical Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
