Constitutions of Matter

List of Figures
Preface
1: Modeling the Constitutions of Matter
2: Analysis: The Stability of Bulk Matter
3: Mathematics: Infinite Volume Limits and Thermodynamics
4: Formalism: Constituting Bulk Matter: Solutions to the Ising Model, and Duality in Those Solutions
5: Analysis: Generic, Formal, Model-Independent Accounts of the Constitution of Matter as Philosophical
6: Formalism: Technical Devices Doing the Work of Physics
7: Physics and Mathematics: Finding the Right Mechanism and Choosing the Right Functions
8: The Physics and the Mathematics
Appendix: Two Papers by Lars Onsager
A: Electrostatic Interaction of Molecules (1939)
B: Crystal Statistics, Part I: A Two-Dimensional Model with an Order-Disorder Transition (1944)
Notes
References
Index