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Introduction

The first part of this course 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, since the probabilistic ``calculation'' which underpins all of this subject is extraordinarily simple.



Richard Fitzpatrick 2006-02-02