Ch. 1. Some fundamental notions. 1.1. Definitions. 1.2. Components of a matrix. 1.3. Matrix functions. 1.4. Normal matrices -- ch. 2. Evolving systems -- ch. 3. Markov chains. 3.1. Non-negative matrices. 3.2. General properties -- ch. 4. Glass transition -- ch. 5. The Kerner model. 5.1. A simple example: Se-As glass -- ch. 6. Formal developments. 6.1. Spectral aspects. 6.2. Reducibility and regularity. 6.3. Projectors and asymptotics. 6.4. Continuum time -- ch. 7. Equilibrium, dissipation and ergodicity. 7.1. Recurrence, transience and periodicity. 7.2. Detailed balancing and reversibility. 7.3. Ergodicity -- ch. 8. Prelude -- ch. 9. Definition and main properties. 9.1. Bases. 9.2. Double Fourier transform. 9.3. Random walks -- ch. 10. Discrete quantum mechanics. 10.1. Introduction. 10.2. Weyl-Heisenberg groups. 10.3. Weyl-Wigner transformations. 10.4. Braiding and quantum groups -- ch. 11. Quantum symplectic structure. 11.1. Matrix differential geometry. 11.2. The symplectic form. 11.3. The quantum fabric -- ch. 12. An organizing tool -- ch. 13. Bell polynomials. 13.1. Definition and elementary properties. 13.2. The matrix representation. 13.3. The Lagrange inversion formula. 13.4. Developments -- ch. 14. Determinants and traces. 14.1. Introduction. 14.2. Symmetric functions. 14.3. Polynomials. 14.4. Characteristic polynomials. 14.5. Lie algebras invariants -- ch. 15. Projectors and iterates. 15.1. Projectors, revisited. 15.2. Continuous iterates -- ch. 16. Gases: real and ideal. 16.1. Microcanonical ensemble. 16.2. The canonical ensemble. 16.3. The grand canonical ensemble. 16.4. Braid statistics. 16.5. Condensation theories. 16.6. The Fredholm formalism.

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