%0 Journal Article %T Statistical Mechanics of Recurrent Neural Networks I. Statics %A A. C. C. Coolen %J Quantitative Biology %D 2000 %I arXiv %X A lecture notes style review of the equilibrium statistical mechanics of recurrent neural networks with discrete and continuous neurons (e.g. Ising, coupled-oscillators). To be published in the Handbook of Biological Physics (North-Holland). Accompanied by a similar review (part II) dealing with the dynamics. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0006010v1