Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics [Dover edition.] 9780486815558, 0486815552

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NON-EQUILIBRIUM

STATISTICAL MECHANICS ILYA PRIGOGINE Professor of Physical Chemistry and of Theoretical Physics Université Libre, Brussels, Belgium

DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. MINEOLA, NEW YORK

Bibliographical Note   This Dover edition, first published in 2017, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1962 by Interscience Publishers, New York, as Volume I of the series “Monographs in Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics.”

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Prigogine, I. (Ilya), author. Title: Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics / Ilya Prigogine. Description: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2017. | “This Dover edition, first published in 2017, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1962 by Interscience Publishers, New York, as Volume I of the series “Monographs in Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics”--Title page verso. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016042731| ISBN 9780486815558 | ISBN 0486815552 Subjects: LCSH: Statistical mechanics. Classification: LCC QC175 .P762 2017 | DDC 530.13--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016042731 Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications 81555201 2017 www.doverpublications.com

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lya Prigogine won the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics. This groundbreaking 1962 monograph, written for researchers and graduate students in this field, was his first book-length contribution to this subject. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in physics and chemistry, the treatment begins with examinations of the Liouville equation, anharmonic solids, and Brownian motion. Subsequent chapters explore weakly coupled gases, scattering theory and short-range forces, distribution functions and their diagrammatic representation, the time dependence of diagrams, the approach to equilibrium in ionized gases, and statistical hydrodynamics. Additional topics include general kinetic equations, general H-theorem, quantum mechanics, and irreversibility and invariants of motion. Appendices, a bibliography, list of symbols, and an index conclude the text. Dover republication of the edition originally published by Interscience Publishers, New York, 1962.

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