Table of Contents

Foreword by P-G DeGennes for the First Edition; Introduction; What Does a Polymer Molecule Look Like?; How Are Polymers Made?; What Kinds of Polymer Substances Are There?; Polymers in Nature; The Mathematics of a Simple Polymer Coil; The Physics of High Elasticity; The Problem of Excluded Volume; Coils and Globules; Dynamics of Polymeric Fluids; To Knot or Not to Knot; The Mathematics of Complicated Polymer Structures: Fractals; Polymers and the Origin of Life.