(May 27, 2013) Leonard Susskind develops the Ising model of ferromagnetism to explain the mathematics of phase transitions. The one-dimensional Ising model does not exhibit phase transitions, but higher dimension models do.
Originally presented in the Stanford Continuing Studies Program.
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