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Foundations of Statistical Mechanics depicting a child's world ofThis volume demonstrates the manner in which statistical mechanics can be built up deductively from a small number of well defined physical assumptions. A solid basis for the deductive structure is provided by embodying these assumptions in a system of five postulates that describe an idealized model of real physical systems. These postulates play a theoretical role similar to that of the first and second laws in thermodynamics. The first chapter