Daniel Charles Mattis, "Statistical Mechanics Made Easy: A Guide for Students and Researchers"
World Scientific | April 2003 | ISBN: 981238166X | PDF | 2 Mb | 266 pages
This book is an elaboration of the author's lecture notes in a graduate course in statistical physics and thermodynamics, augmented by some material suitable for self-teaching as well as for undergraduate study.
The selection of material is wide-ranging and the mathematics for handling it completely self-contained, ranging from counting (probability theory) to quantum field theory as used in the study of fermions, bosons and as an adjunct in the solutions of the equations of classical diffusion-reaction theory.