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List of textbooks in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics

List of textbooks in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics

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A list of notable textbooks in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, arranged by category and date.

Only or mainly thermodynamics

Front cover of the second edition of Herbert Callen's text.
  • Fermi, Enrico (1956). Thermodynamics (New ed.). Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0486603612.[1]
  • Van Ness, H. C. (1983). Understanding Thermodynamics. Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0486632773.[2]
  • Callen, Herbert (1985). Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Themostatistics (2nd ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-86256-8.[3][4][5][6]
  • Finn, C. B. P. (1993). Thermal Physics (2nd ed.). United States of America: CRC Press. ISBN 0-7487-4379-0.[7][8][9]
  • Zemansky, Mark W.; Dittman, Richard (1996). Heat and Thermodynamics (7th ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0070170599.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
  • Pokrovskii, Vladimir (2020). Thermodynamics of Complex Systems: Principles and applications. IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK. ISBN 978-0-7503-3451-8.[17]

Both thermodynamics and statistical mechanics

Statistical mechanics

2e (2000) Sausalito, Calif.: University Science ISBN 1-891389-15-7
2e (1998) Chichester: Wiley ISBN 0-471-59520-9

Specialized topics

Kinetic theory

Quantum statistical mechanics

  • Bogoliubov, N. N. (1967–1970). Lectures on Quantum Statistics. Problems of Statistical Mechanics of Quantum Systems. New York: Gordon and Breach.
  • Bogoliubov, N. N.; N. N. Bogolubov, Jnr. (1992). Introduction to Quantum Statistical Mechanics. New York: Gordon and Breach. ISBN 2-88124-879-9.

Mathematics of statistical mechanics

Miscellaneous

(available online here)

Historical

See also

Further reading


References

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