Pathria, R.K. <br/><br/>
Statistical mechanics/ 
R.K. Pathria. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - Oxford:  Butterworth,  1996. 
 - xiv, 529 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Historical introduction; The statistical basis of thermodynamics; Elements of the ensemble theory; The canonical ensemble; The grand canonical ensemble; Formulation of quantum statistics; The theory of simple gases; Ideal Bose systems; Ideal Fermi systems; Statistical mechanics of interacting systems: The method of cluster explansions, the method of quantized fields; Phase transitions: critically, universality and scaling, exact (or almost exact) results for the various models, the renormalization group approach; Fluctuations. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788181473264 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Statistical mechanics<br/>Thermodynamics<br/>Kinetic theory of gases
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>530.13  / PAT/S