Random Matrices: Revised and Enlarged Second Edition

Madan Lal Mehta

ISBN 10: 1493307320 / ISBN 13: 9781493307326

Published by Academic Press, 2014

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580 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.31 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # zk1493307320

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Title: Random Matrices: Revised and Enlarged Second...

Publisher: Academic Press

Publication Date: 2014

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Brand New

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Since the publication of Random Matrices (Academic Press, 1967) so many new results have emerged both in theory and in applications, that this edition is almost completely revised to reflect the developments. For example, the theory of matrices with quaternion elements was developed to compute certain multiple integrals, and the inverse scattering theory was used to derive asymptotic results. The discovery of Selberg's 1944 paper on a multiple integral also gave rise to hundreds of recent publications. This book presents a coherent and detailed analytical treatment of random matrices, leading in particular to the calculation of n-point correlations, of spacing probabilities, and of a number of statistical quantities. The results are used in describing the statistical properties of nuclear excitations, the energies of chaotic systems, the ultrasonic frequencies of structural materials, the zeros of the Riemann zeta function, and in general the characteristic energies of any sufficiently complicated system. Of special interest to physicists and mathematicians, the book is self-contained and the reader need know mathematics only at the undergraduate level.