Stat mech text

jojo12345

Hi all,

I'm looking for a rigorous (in a mathematical sense) treatment of statistical thermodynamics. I'm at the tail end of a class on stat thermo that used the book by Bowley and Sanchez. This book is not what I'm looking for. Does anyone have any suggestions?

matonski

Books I like are:

Landau and Lifshitz
Feynman
Pathria

atyy

Kardar's books are superb. His notes are also available at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-...Home/index.htm

jojo12345

Thanks for the suggestions. The first of the four that have been suggested that I took a look at was Kardar (the ocw lecture notes, to be precise). I really like the connection he makes early on between information entropy and estimating probability distributions.

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jojo12345	Stat mech text Tweet Hi all, I'm looking for a rigorous (in a mathematical sense) treatment of statistical thermodynamics. I'm at the tail end of a class on stat thermo that used the book by Bowley and Sanchez. This book is not what I'm looking for. Does anyone have any suggestions?

matonski	Books I like are: Landau and Lifshitz Feynman Pathria

atyy Recognitions: Science Advisor	Kardar's books are superb. His notes are also available at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-...Home/index.htm

jojo12345	Stat mech text Thanks for the suggestions. The first of the four that have been suggested that I took a look at was Kardar (the ocw lecture notes, to be precise). I really like the connection he makes early on between information entropy and estimating probability distributions.