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Introduction

This chapter is devoted to a brief, and fairly low-level, introduction to a branch of mathematics known as probability theory. In fact, we do not need to know very much about probability theory in order to understand statistical thermodynamics, because the probabilistic calculation that ultimately underpins the latter subject area is extraordinarily simple.



Richard Fitzpatrick 2016-01-25