MATHEMATICAL BEAUTY OF PHYSICS, THE: A MEMORIAL VOLUME FOR CLAUDE ITZYKSON

This volume gathers contributions to the conference in memory of Claude Itzykson held in Saclay in June 1996. As an hommage to the great variety of interests of this distinguished scientist, latest developments in topics of current activity are covered, in various branches of mathematical physics and mathematics: conformal field theory, strings and topology, disordered systems, chaos and number theory.