List of notable textbooks in statistical mechanics
Encyclopedia
Equilibrium statistical mechanics, and statistical mechanics as a whole
- (1981) Woodbridge, CT
- Ox Bow Press ISBN 0-918024-20-X German Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences :translated by Michael J. Moravcsik (1959) Ithaca: Cornell University Press; (1990) New York: Dover ISBN 0-486-66250-0 :2e (1936) Cambridge: University Press; (1980) Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-09377-5; (1979) New York: Dover ISBN 0-486-63896-0 Vol. 5 of the Course of Theoretical PhysicsCourse of Theoretical PhysicsThe Course of Theoretical Physics is a ten-volume series of books covering theoretical physics that was initiated by Lev Landau and written in collaboration with his student Evgeny Lifshitz starting in the late 1930s....
. :translated by D. ShoenbergDavid ShoenbergDavid Shoenberg, MBE FRS, was a British physicist.David Shoenberg was born in 1911, the son of Isaac Shoenberg. Isaac, born in Pinsk in Russia was the principal inventor of the high-definition television system used by the BBC for the world’s first high-definition television broadcast from...
(1938) Oxford:Clarendon Press. :translated by E. Peierls and R.F. PeierlsRudolf PeierlsSir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, CBE was a German-born British physicist. Rudolf Peierls had a major role in Britain's nuclear program, but he also had a role in many modern sciences...
(1958) Oxford: Pergamon Press. :2e (1951) Translated by J.B. Sykes and M.J. Kearsley (1968) Oxford : Pergamon Press. ISBN 0-08-009103-2 :3e (1976) Translated by J.B. Sykes and M.J. Kearsley (1980) Oxford : Pergamon Press. ISBN 0-7506-3372-7 :translated by G. GamowGeorge GamowGeorge Gamow , born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov , was a Russian-born theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He discovered alpha decay via quantum tunneling and worked on radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, cosmic microwave...
(1949) New York: Dover ISBN 0-486-60147-1 :translated by J. Kestin (1956) New York:Academic Press. :2e (1966) New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston :3e (1995) Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN 0-7506-2347-0 :2e (1987) New York: Wiley ISBN 0-471-81518-7 :2e (1988) Amsterdam: North-Holland ISBN 0-444-87103-9 :2e (1991) Berlin: Springer Verlag ISBN 0-387-53662-0 ISBN 3-540-53662-0 :2e Kittel, Charles; and Kroemer, Herbert (1980) New York: W.H. Freeman ISBN 0-7167-1088-9 ISBN 0805383611 :reissued (1974), (1989); (1999) Singapore: World Scientific ISBN 981-02-3862-2; (2005) New York: Dover ISBN 0-486-43870-8 :2e (1988) Chichester: Wiley ISBN 0-471-91532-7 ISBN 0-471-91533-5 :2e (1996) Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann (now Elsevier) ISBN 0750624698 :2e (2000) Sausalito, Calif.: University Science ISBN 1-891389-15-7; (1990) New York: Dover ISBN 0-486-66493-7; (1984) Cambridge: University Press ISBN 0-521-30225-0 :2e (2004) Cambridge: University Press ISBN 0-521-54649-4 :2e (1998) Chichester: Wiley ISBN 0-471-59520-9 (available online here
Kinetic theory
- translated by Stephen G. Brush (1964) Berkeley: University of California Press; (1995) New York: Dover ISBN 0-486-68455-5 Vol. 10 of the Course of Theoretical PhysicsCourse of Theoretical PhysicsThe Course of Theoretical Physics is a ten-volume series of books covering theoretical physics that was initiated by Lev Landau and written in collaboration with his student Evgeny Lifshitz starting in the late 1930s....
(3rd Ed). - translated by J.B. Sykes and R.N. Franklin (1981) London: Pergamon ISBN 0-08-026480-8 ISBN 0-7506-2635-6
External links
- Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics Texts Clark University curriculum development project