FYI these notes by david tong contain the clearest explanation of statistical mechanics i’ve ever read, including stuff by feynman and that one blog post by terence tao
damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/stat
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wow yeah these notes are really really clear
ty for link!
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he has so many other notes too! it's very exciting! i am going to read all of them very quickly and then maybe go back through some of them a second time to actually follow along with the calculations