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A list of notable textbooks in [[Physics:Statistical mechanics|statistical mechanics]], arranged by date.
== Equilibrium statistical mechanics, and statistical mechanics as a whole ==

* {{cite book |last=Gibbs |first=Josiah Willard |title=[[Physics:Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics|Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, developed with especial reference to the rational foundation of thermodynamics]] |year=1902 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |location=New York}}
* {{cite book | author=Ehrenfest, Paul and [[Biography:Tatyana Afanasyeva|Tatiana]] | title=The conceptual foundations of the statistical approach in mechanics | year=1912}} German Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences
:translated by Michael J. Moravcsik (1959) Ithaca: Cornell University Press; (1990) New York: Dover {{ISBN|0-486-66250-0}}
* {{cite book |  author=Fowler, R. H. | title=Statistical mechanics : the theory of the properties of matter in equilibrium | location=Cambridge | publisher=University Press | year=1929}}
:2e (1936) Cambridge: University Press; (1980) Cambridge University Press {{ISBN|0-521-09377-5}}
* {{cite book |  author=Tolman, Richard C. | title=The principles of statistical mechanics | location=Oxford | publisher=Clarendon Press | year=1938}}; (1979) New York: Dover {{ISBN|0-486-63896-0}}
* {{cite book | author=[[Biography:Lev Landau|Landau, Lev Davidovich]]; and [[Biography:Evgeny Lifshitz|Lifshitz, Evgeny Mikhailovich]] | title=Statistical Physics}} Vol. 5 of the [[Physics:Course of Theoretical Physics|Course of Theoretical Physics]].
:translated by D. Shoenberg (1938) Oxford:Clarendon Press.
:translated by E. Peierls and [[Biography:Rudolf Peierls|R.F. Peierls]] (1958) Oxford: Pergamon Press.
:2e (1951) Translated by J.B. Sykes and M.J. Kearsley (1968) Oxford : Pergamon Press. {{ISBN|0-08-009103-2}}
:3e (1976) Translated by J.B. Sykes and M.J. Kearsley (1980) Oxford : Pergamon Press. {{ISBN|0-7506-3372-7}}
* {{cite book |  author=Khinchin, Aleksandr Ya. | title=Mathematical Foundations of Statistical Mechanics | year=1943 }}
:translated by [[Biography:George Gamow|G. Gamow]] (1949) New York: Dover {{ISBN|0-486-60147-1}}
* {{cite book | author=[[Biography:Arnold Sommerfeld|Sommerfeld, Arnold]]; ed: F. Bopp, J. Meixner | title=Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics | year=1952}}
:translated by J. Kestin (1956) New York:Academic Press. 
* {{cite book |  author=ter Haar, Dirk | title=Elements of statistical mechanics | location=London | publisher=Constable | year=1954}}
:2e (1966) New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston
:3e (1995) Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann {{ISBN|0-7506-2347-0}}
* {{cite book |  author=Huang, Kerson | title=Statistical mechanics | location=New York | publisher=Wiley | year=1963 | isbn= 0-471-41760-2}}
:2e (1987) New York: Wiley {{ISBN|0-471-81518-7}}
* {{cite book | author=Kubo, Ryogo | title=Statistical mechanics | location=Amsterdam | publisher=North-Holland | year=1965 | isbn=0-444-10637-5|display-authors=0}}
:2e (1988) Amsterdam: North-Holland {{ISBN|0-444-87103-9}}
:2e (1991) Berlin: Springer Verlag {{ISBN|0-387-53662-0}}, {{ISBN|3-540-53662-0}} 
* {{cite book |  author=Reif, Frederick | title=Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics | publisher=McGraw-Hill | year=1965 | isbn=0-07-051800-9}}
* {{cite book |  author=Kittel, Charles | title=Thermal Physics | location=Chichester | publisher=Wiley | year=1969 | isbn = 0-471-49030-X}}
:2e Kittel, Charles; and Kroemer, Herbert (1980) New York: W.H. Freeman {{ISBN|0-7167-1088-9}}
* {{cite book |  author=Ruelle, David | title=Statistical Mechanics: Rigorous Results | location=New York | publisher=Benjamin | year=1969}} {{ISBN|0-8053-8361-1}}
:reissued (1974), (1989); (1999) Singapore: World Scientific {{ISBN|981-02-3862-2}}
* {{cite book |  author=Penrose, Oliver | title=Foundations of statistical mechanics : a deductive treatment | location=Oxford | publisher=Pergamon | year=1970 | isbn = 0-08-013314-2}}; (2005) New York: Dover {{ISBN|0-486-43870-8}}
* {{cite book |  author=Mandl, Franz | title=Statistical physics | location=Chichester | publisher=Wiley | year=1971 | isbn=0-471-56658-6}}
:2e (1988) Chichester: Wiley {{ISBN|0-471-91532-7}}, {{ISBN|0-471-91533-5}}
* {{cite book |  author=Pathria, R. K. | title=Statistical Mechanics | location=Oxford | publisher=Pergamon | year = 1972 | isbn=0-08-016747-0}}
:2e (1996) Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann (now Elsevier) {{ISBN|0-7506-2469-8}}
* {{cite book |  author=McQuarrie, Donald A. | title=Statistical mechanics | location=New York | publisher=Harper & Row | year=1975 | isbn=0-06-044366-9}}
:2e (2000) Sausalito, Calif.: University Science {{ISBN|1-891389-15-7}}
* {{cite book |  author=Landsberg, P. T. | title=Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=1978 | isbn=0-19-851142-6}}; (1990) New York: Dover {{ISBN|0-486-66493-7}}
* {{cite book |  author=Ruelle, David | title=Thermodynamic formalism : the mathematical structures of classical equilibrium statistical mechanics | publisher=Addison-Wesley | year=1978 | isbn= 0-201-13504-3}}; (1984) Cambridge: University Press {{ISBN|0-521-30225-0}}
:2e (2004) Cambridge: University Press {{ISBN|0-521-54649-4}}
* {{cite book |  author=Reichl, Linda E | title=A modern course in statistical physics | location= London | publisher=Edward Arnold | year = 1980 | isbn=0-7131-2777-5}}
:2e (1998) Chichester: Wiley {{ISBN|0-471-59520-9}}
* {{cite book |  author=Ma, Shang-keng | title=Statistical mechanics |location=Singapore | publisher=World Scientific | year=1985 | isbn=9971-966-06-9}} 
* {{cite book |  author=Waldram, J. R. | title=The theory of thermodynamics |location=Cambridge | publisher=University Press | year=1985 | isbn=0-521-28796-0}}
* {{cite book |  author=Chandler, David | title=Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics | publisher=Oxford University Press | year = 1987 | isbn=0-19-504277-8}}
* {{cite book |  author=Hoover, Wm. G. | title=Computational Statistical Mechanics | publisher=Elsevier | year = 1991 | isbn=0-444-88192-1}} (available online [http://williamhoover.info/book.pdf here])
* {{cite book | author=W.A. Wassam, Jr.|  title=Statistical Mechanics : Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Third Edition, Volume 15 |publisher=Academic Press |year = 2002 | isbn = 978-0-12-227410-7}}
* {{cite book |  author=Kardar, Mehran | title= Statistical Physics of Fields |publisher=Cambridge University Press | year = 2007 | isbn=978-0-521-87341-3}}
* {{cite book |  author=Sethna, James | title= Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity |publisher=Oxford University Press | year = 2006 | isbn=0-19-856677-8}}
* {{cite book | author=Bowley, Roger and Sanchez, Mariana | title= Introductory Statistical Mechanics|publisher=Oxford University Press | year = 2000 | isbn=978-0-19-850576-1}}
* {{cite book | author1=Van Vliet |author2=Carolyne M. | title= Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics | publisher=World Scientific Publishing Company | year=2008 | isbn=978-981-270-477-1|pages=982}}
* {{cite book |  author=Peliti, Luca | title= Statistical Mechanics in a Nutshell | publisher=Princeton University Press | year=2011 | isbn=978-0-691-14529-7 |pages=417}}
* {{cite book |  author=Swendsen, Robert | title=An Introduction to Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2012 | isbn=978-0-19-964694-4}}
* {{cite book |last1=Friedli |first=S. |last2=Velenik |first2=Y. |title=Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Systems: a Concrete Mathematical Introduction |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=2017 |isbn=9781107184824 |url=http://www.unige.ch/math/folks/velenik/smbook/index.html}}

== Kinetic theory ==

* {{cite book |  author=Boltzmann, Ludwig | title=Lectures on gas theory (1896, 1898)}}
:translated by Stephen G. Brush (1964) Berkeley: University of California Press; (1995) New York: Dover {{ISBN|0-486-68455-5}}
* {{cite book |author1=Lifshitz, E. M. |author2=Pitaevskii, L. P.  |lastauthoramp=yes| title=Physical kinetics}} Vol. 10 of the [[Physics:Course of Theoretical Physics|Course of Theoretical Physics]] (3rd Ed).
:translated by J.B. Sykes and R.N. Franklin (1981) London: Pergamon {{ISBN|0-08-026480-8}}, {{ISBN|0-7506-2635-6}}

* {{cite book |title=Nonequilibrium Statistical Thermodynamics |last=[[Biography:Dmitry Zubarev|Zubarev, D. N.]] |year=1974 |publisher=Consultants Bureau |location=New York |isbn=978-0-306-10895-2 |page= |pages= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQy3AAAAIAAJ&hl=ru&source=gbs_ViewAPI }}
* {{cite book |title=Statistical Mechanics of Nonequilibrium Processes: Basic Concepts, Kinetic Theory |last=[[Biography:Dmitry Zubarev|Zubarev, D. N.]] |author2=Morozov V.|author3=Ropke G. |year=1996 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |location= |isbn=3-05-501708-0 |page= |pages= |url= }}
* {{cite book |title=Statistical Mechanics of Nonequilibrium Processes: Relaxation and Hydrodynamic Processes |last=[[Biography:Dmitry Zubarev|Zubarev, D. N.]] |author2=Morozov V.|author3=Ropke G. |year=1997 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |location= |isbn=3-527-40084-2 |page= |pages= |url= }}

==Statistical mechanics of quantum systems==
* {{cite book |title=Lectures on Quantum Statistics. Problems of Statistical Mechanics of Quantum Systems |last=Bogoliubov, N. N.|year=1967–1970 |publisher=Gordon and Breach |location=New York |isbn= |page= |pages= |url= }}
* {{cite book |title=Introduction to Quantum Statistical Mechanics |last=Bogoliubov, N. N.|author2=N. N. Bogolubov, Jnr. |year=1992 |publisher=Gordon and Breach |location=New York |isbn=2-88124-879-9 |page= |pages= |url= }}

==See also==

*[[Physics:List of textbooks in electromagnetism|List of textbooks in electromagnetism]]

== External links ==
* [http://stp.clarku.edu/books/ Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics Texts] Clark University curriculum development project

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