Statistical Mechanics

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Historical introduction; The basis 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; Statistical mechanics of interacting systems: The method of cluster exploration, the method of quantized fields; Phase transitions: critically, universality and scaling, exact (or almost exact) results for the models, the renormalization group approach; Fluctuations.