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In this chapter, we review the classical foundations on which our later discussions are built. Setting out from a revision of Hamilton’s formulation of mechanics, we revisit the ideas of classical statistical mechanics and its relation to classical thermodynamics.
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Millington, P. (2014). Classical Prerequisites. In: Thermal Quantum Field Theory and Perturbative Non-Equilibrium Dynamics. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01186-8_3
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