This book contains lectures given at the Institute for Scientific Interchange (I.S.I., Turin) in 1983 - 1984 on the exact solution of the 8-vertex and related models and extensions of the Baxter model to 3 dimensions.

This book contains lectures given at the Institute for Scientific Interchange (I.S.I., Turin) in 1983 - 1984 on the exact solution of the 8-vertex and related models and extensions of the Baxter model to 3 dimensions.