The Potts and random-cluster models
  This is a short account of connections between the Tutte polynomial and the Ising, Potts, and random-cluster models. The four principal elements are the Ising model of 1925, the Tutte polynomial of 1947, the Potts model of 1952, and the random-cluster model of 1972. 
Geoffrey R. Grimmett
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