by David Pines 0 7382 0115 4 (pbk $35) copyright 1963.
Based on an advanced course in the theory of solids at Illinois in 1961, this continues to fill the need to communicate the present view of a solid as a system of interacting particles that, under suitable circumstances, behaves like a collection of nearly independent elementary excitations. The author frequently refers to experimental data. Both the basic theory and the applications largely deal with the behaviour of “simple” metals, such as the alkali metals, rather than the more complicated transition metals and the rare-earths. Problems are included in most chapters.
