List of textbooks in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics


A list of notable textbooks in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, arranged by category and date.

Only or mainly thermodynamics

Both thermodynamics and statistical mechanics

  • 2e Kittel, Charles; and Kroemer, Herbert New York: W.H. Freeman
  • 2e Chichester: Wiley,.
  • New York: Dover
  • Stephen G. Brush The Kind of Motion We Call Heat I-II North-Holland

Statistical mechanics

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Specialized topics

Kinetic theory

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Quantum statistical mechanics

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Mathematics of statistical mechanics

  • Translated by G. Gamow New York: Dover
  • . Reissued, ; Singapore: World Scientific
  • ; Cambridge: University Press. 2e Cambridge: University Press

Miscellaneous

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Historical