Statistical Physics. Including Applications to Condensed Matter

A course of Quantum Mechanics, like the one taught at Ecole Polytechnique, is devoted to the description of the state of an individual particle, or possibly of a few ones. Conversely, the topic of this book will be the study of systems∗ containing very many particles, of the order of the Avogadro number N, for example the molecules in a gas, the components of a chemical reaction, the ads…