TY - BOOK AU - Pathria,R.K. TI - Statistical mechanics SN - 9780750624695 (pbk.) U1 - 530.13 PAT 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Boston PB - Academic Press KW - Statistical mechanics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 -