Download or read book Conformal Invariance and Applications to Statistical Mechanics written by Claude Itzykson and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1988 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains Introductory Notes and major reprints on conformal field theory and its applications to 2-dimensional statistical mechanics of critical phenomena. The subject relates to many different areas in contemporary physics and mathematics, including string theory, integrable systems, representations of infinite Lie algebras and automorphic functions.