Jay Robert Dorfman is Emeritus Professor at the University of Maryland. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a recipient of the Chancellor's Medal for distinguished contributions to the University of Maryland. He is also the author of two books: A Course in Statistical Thermodynamics with Joseph Kestin, and An Introduction to Chaos in Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics (Cambridge University Press). Henk van Beijeren is Emeritus Professor at Utrecht University and former Scientific Director of The Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. He is a recipient of the Humboldt-Forschungs award. Theodore Ross Kirkpatrick is Research Professor at the University of Maryland and a fellow of the American Physical Society. He has co-authored over 220 research papers in related areas of research.

'This substantial volume provides a detailed mathematical framework for the qualitative treatment of non-equilibrium processes in classical and quantum fluids, including those found in astrophysical situations.' The Observatory

• 1. Introduction; 2. The Boltzmann equation 1: Fundamentals; 3. The Boltzmann equation 2: Fluid dynamics; 4. Dilute gas mixtures; 5. The dilute Lorentz gas; 6. Basic tools; 7. Enskog theory: Dense hard sphere systems; 8. The Boltzmann-Langevin equation; 9. Granular gases; 10. Quantum gases; 11. Cluster expansions; 12. Divergences and resummations; 13. Long time tails; 14. Non-equilibrium steady states; 15. What's next; Bibliography; Index.

Jay Robert Dorfman is Emeritus Professor at the University of Maryland. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a recipient of the Chancellor's Medal for distinguished contributions to the University of Maryland. He is also the author of two books: A Course in Statistical Thermodynamics with Joseph Kestin, and An Introduction to Chaos in Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics (Cambridge University Press). Henk van Beijeren is Emeritus Professor at Utrecht University and former Scientific Director of The Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. He is a recipient of the Humboldt-Forschungs award. Theodore Ross Kirkpatrick is Research Professor at the University of Maryland and a fellow of the American Physical Society. He has co-authored over 220 research papers in related areas of research.

'This substantial volume provides a detailed mathematical framework for the qualitative treatment of non-equilibrium processes in classical and quantum fluids, including those found in astrophysical situations.' The Observatory

• 1. Introduction; 2. The Boltzmann equation 1: Fundamentals; 3. The Boltzmann equation 2: Fluid dynamics; 4. Dilute gas mixtures; 5. The dilute Lorentz gas; 6. Basic tools; 7. Enskog theory: Dense hard sphere systems; 8. The Boltzmann-Langevin equation; 9. Granular gases; 10. Quantum gases; 11. Cluster expansions; 12. Divergences and resummations; 13. Long time tails; 14. Non-equilibrium steady states; 15. What's next; Bibliography; Index.