Some ten years ago, when completing with J.-B. Zuber a previous text on Quantum Field Theory, the senior author was painfully aware that little mention was made that methods in statistical physics and Euclidean field theory were coming closer and closer, with common tools based on the use of path integrals and the renormalization group giving insights on global structures. It was partly to fill this gap that the present book was undertaken. Alas, over the five years that it took to come to life,

Contents of Volume 1
Preface
7 Diagrammatic methods
7.1 General Techniques
7.2 Series expansions
7.4 Results and analysis
Notes
8 Numerical simulations
8.1 Algorithms
8.2 Extraction of results in a simulation
Notes
9 Conformal invariance
9.1 Energy-momentum tensor - Virasoro algebra
9.2 Examples
9.3 Finite size effects and modular invariance
9.A Jacobian 6-series and products
9.B Superconformal algebra
9.C Current algebra
Notes
10 Disordered systems and fermionic methods
10.1 One-dimensional models
10.2 Two-dimensional electron gas in a strong field
10.3 Random matrices
10.4 The planar approximation
10.5 Spin systems with random interactions
Notes
11 Random geometry
11.1 Random lattices
11.2 Random surfaces
Notes
Index