Seeking a Rigorous Treatment of Statistical Thermodynamics

[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:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0750633727/?tag=pfamazon01-20
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201360764/?tag=pfamazon01-20
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0750624698/?tag=pfamazon01-20

 

[atyy]

Kardar's books are superb. His notes are also available at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-333Fall-2007/CourseHome/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.