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    <namePart>Pathria, R. K.</namePart>
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    <namePart>Beale, Paul D.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Elsevier/Academic Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2011</dateIssued>
    <edition>3rd ed. /</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxvi, 718 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>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 -- Thermodynamics of the early universe -- Statistical mechanics of interacting systems : the method of cluster expansions -- Statistical mechanics of interacting systems : the method of quantized fields -- Phase transitions : criticality, universality, and scaling -- Phase transitions : exact (or almost exact) results for models -- Phase transitions : the renormalization group approach -- Fluctuations and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics -- Computer simulations.</tableOfContents>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 687-705) and index.</note>
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