List of notable textbooks in statistical mechanics

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A list of notable textbooks in statistical mechanics, arranged by date.

[edit] Equilibrium statistical mechanics, and statistical mechanics as a whole

  • Gibbs, J. Willard (1902). Elementary principles in statistical dynamics. New York.; (1981) Woodbridge, CT: Ox Bow Press ISBN 0-918024-20-X
  • Ehrenfest, Paul and Tatiana (1912). The conceptual foundations of the statistical approach in mechanics. German Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences
translated by Stephen G. Brush (1959) Ithaca: Cornell University Press; (1990) New York: Dover ISBN 0-486-66250-0
  • Fowler, R. H. (1929). Statistical mechanics : the theory of the properties of matter in equilibrium. Cambridge: University Press.
2e (1936) Cambridge: University Press; (1980) Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-09377-5
translated by D. Shoenberg (1938) Oxford:Clarendon Press.
translated by E. Peierls and 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
translated by G. Gamow (1949) New York: Dover ISBN 0-486-60147-1
  • Sommerfeld, Arnold; ed: F. Bopp, J. Meixner (1952). Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.
translated by J. Kestin (1956) New York:Academic Press.
  • ter Haar, Dirk (1954). Elements of statistical mechanics. London: Constable.
2e (1966) New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston
3e (1995) Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN 0-7506-2347-0
2e (1987) New York: Wiley ISBN 0-471-81518-7
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
  • Reif, Frederick (1965). Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-051800-9.
  • Kittel, Charles (1969). Thermal Physics. Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 0-471-49030-X.
2e Kittel, Charles; and Kroemer, Herbert (1980) New York: W.H. Freeman ISBN 0-7167-1088-9
2e (1988) Chichester: Wiley ISBN 0-471-91532-7 ISBN 0-471-91533-5
  • McQuarrie, Donald A. (1975). Statistical mechanics. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-044366-9.
2e (2000) Sausalito, Calif.: University Science ISBN 1-891389-15-7
2e (2004) Cambridge: University Press ISBN 0-521-54649-4
2e (1998) Chichester: Wiley ISBN 0-471-59520-9

[edit] Kinetic theory

translated by Stephen G. Brush (1964) Berkeley: University of California Press; (1995) New York: Dover ISBN 0-486-68455-5
  • Lifshitz, E. M.; and Pitaevskii, L. P.. Physical kinetics. Vol. 10 of the 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
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