Table of Contents: “...Chapter 1: Historical Background and Physical Motivations -- Chapter 2: Learning with Boltzmann-Gibbs Statistical Mechanics -- Chapter 3: Generalizing What We Learnt: Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics -- Chapter 4: Stochastic Dynamical Foundations...”

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Table of Contents: “...section II. Statistical thermodynamics. 11. Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics -- 11.1. Types of mechanics -- 11.2. Development of statistical thermodynamics -- 11.3. Statistical description of physical systems -- 11.4. Description of a system...”

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Table of Contents: “... -- The partition function -- An ideal gas of atoms -- An ideal gas of diatomic molecules -- Statistical mechanics and equilibrium....”

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