TY - BOOK AU - Pathria,R.K AU - Beale,Paul D TI - Statistical mechanics SN - 9780123821881 (pbk.) U1 - 530.13 PY - 2011/// CY - Boston PB - Butterworth-Heinemann KW - Statistical mechanics N1 - Machine generated contents note: 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 ER -