Some Fruits of Genius: Lars Onsager and the Ising Model

COFFEE_KLATCH  · Invited

Abstract

The story of the exact solution of the two-dimensional Ising model by Lars Onsager in the 1940's will be sketched and some of the striking developments following from it, especially for the behavior of fluctuating interfaces, will be recounted.

Authors

  • Michael E. Fisher

    • University of Maryland