Pierre Simon is Chargé de recherche, CNRS, at Université Lyon 1, France. He completed his PhD at Université Paris-Sud, Orsay under the supervision of Elisabeth Bourscaren. His thesis, 'Ordre et stabilité dans les théories NIP', received the 2012 Sacks Prize for the best thesis in logic that year as well as the Perrissin-Pirasset/Schneider prize from the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris.

'This book presents NIP theories as a rich and coherent subject, showing a field with a considerable degree of development, particularly taking into account how recent most of the results are. Also, the author made a clear effort in presenting the most elegant proofs he could find, making this a very valuable book and accessible for any reader who understands model theory …' Alf Onshuus, Mathematical Reviews

• 1. Introduction; 2. The NIP property and invariant types; 3. Honest definitions and applications; 4. Strong dependence and dp-ranks; 5. Forking; 6. Finite combinatorics; 7. Measures; 8. Definably amenable groups; 9. Distality; Appendix A. Examples of NIP structures; Appendix B. Probability theory; References; Index.

Pierre Simon is Chargé de recherche, CNRS, at Université Lyon 1, France. He completed his PhD at Université Paris-Sud, Orsay under the supervision of Elisabeth Bourscaren. His thesis, 'Ordre et stabilité dans les théories NIP', received the 2012 Sacks Prize for the best thesis in logic that year as well as the Perrissin-Pirasset/Schneider prize from the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris.

'This book presents NIP theories as a rich and coherent subject, showing a field with a considerable degree of development, particularly taking into account how recent most of the results are. Also, the author made a clear effort in presenting the most elegant proofs he could find, making this a very valuable book and accessible for any reader who understands model theory …' Alf Onshuus, Mathematical Reviews

• 1. Introduction; 2. The NIP property and invariant types; 3. Honest definitions and applications; 4. Strong dependence and dp-ranks; 5. Forking; 6. Finite combinatorics; 7. Measures; 8. Definably amenable groups; 9. Distality; Appendix A. Examples of NIP structures; Appendix B. Probability theory; References; Index.

Pierre Simon is Chargé de recherche, CNRS, at Université Lyon 1, France. He completed his PhD at Université Paris-Sud, Orsay under the supervision of Elisabeth Bourscaren. His thesis, 'Ordre et stabilité dans les théories NIP', received the 2012 Sacks Prize for the best thesis in logic that year as well as the Perrissin-Pirasset/Schneider prize from the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris.

'This book presents NIP theories as a rich and coherent subject, showing a field with a considerable degree of development, particularly taking into account how recent most of the results are. Also, the author made a clear effort in presenting the most elegant proofs he could find, making this a very valuable book and accessible for any reader who understands model theory …' Alf Onshuus, Mathematical Reviews

• 1. Introduction; 2. The NIP property and invariant types; 3. Honest definitions and applications; 4. Strong dependence and dp-ranks; 5. Forking; 6. Finite combinatorics; 7. Measures; 8. Definably amenable groups; 9. Distality; Appendix A. Examples of NIP structures; Appendix B. Probability theory; References; Index.