Download or read book Ill-condensed Matter: Les Houches Session Xxxi written by R Balian and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1984-03-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Percolation and Localization (D J Thouless)Disordered Systems — Experimental Viewpoint (J Joffrin)Lectures on Amorphous Systems (P W Anderson)Elementary Algebraic Topology Related to the Theory of Defects and Textures (V Poenaru)Models of Disordered Materials (S Kirkpatrick)Thermal and Geometrical Critical Phenomena in Random Systems (T C Lukensky)A Short Guide to Polymer Physics (P-G de Gennes)and 9 seminars Readership: Graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics.