This work provides an introductory treatment of statistical physics, starting from an elementary level and covering the main classical subjects and applications. The book follows the historical development of statistical mechanics and examines some crucial examples or models.
Elementary Kinetic Theory of gases; Boltzmann equation; transport phenomena and hydrodynamic equations; foundations of Kinetic Theory; fundamental problems of statistical mechanics - irreversibility, equilibrium, recurrence, regodic problem; statistical ensembles; phase transitions and renormalization group; dynamical systems; Brownian motion and Stochastic processes; fractals; disordered systems; Langevin equation and open ensembles; Bose and Fermi gases; applications.