Subject (ZB): “...Statistical Mechanics....”

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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: “...What We Need from Thermodynamics -- What Are Probabilities? -- Dynamical Systems -- Statistical Mechanics 1 : The Nature of Equilibrium -- Statistical Mechanics 2: Irreversibility -- Demystifying Entropy -- Comparison with Quantum Mechanics....”

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Table of Contents: “...An Introduction to Statistical Mechanics -- The Role of Dynamics in Statistical Mechanics -- Operator Representations of Statistical Mechanics -- Path Integrals and Applications -- The Liouville Equation.-Canonical Distributions and Thermodynamic...”

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Table of Contents: “...Preface -- 1 Preliminary Ideas of Counting, and Some Useful Mathematics -- 2 Accessible States and the Fundamental Postulate of Statistical Mechanics -- 3 The Laws of Thermodynamics -- 4 The First Law in Detail -- 5 The Non-Isolated System: the Boltzmann...”

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