The mathematical beauty of physics: a memorial volume for Claude Itzykson: Saclay, France, 5-7 June 1996

Claude Itzykson, Jean Bernard Zuber, Jean-Michel Drouffe9810228074, 9789810228071

This volume gathers contributions to the conference in memory of Claude Itzykson held in Saclay in June 1996. As an hommage to the great variety of interests of this distinguished scientist, latest developments in topics of current activity are covered, in various branches of mathematical physics and mathematics-conformal field theory, strings and topology, disorder systems, chaos and number theory.