| Preface |
| Chapter I. Introduction |
| 1. A brief historical sketch |
| 2. Methodological characterization |
| Chapter II. Geometry and Kinematics of the Phase Space |
| 3. The phase space of a mechanical system |
| 4. Theorem of Liouville |
| 5. Theorem of Birkhoff |
| 6. Case of metric indecomposability |
| 7. Structure functions |
| 8. Components of mechanical systems |
| Chapter III. Ergodic Problem |
| 9. Interpretation of physical quantities in statistical mechanics |
| 10. Fixed and free integrals |
| 11. Brief historical sketch |
| 12. On metric indecomposability of reduced manifolds |
| 13. The possibility of a formulation without the use of metric indecomposability |
| Chapter IV. Reduction to the Problem of the Theory of Probability |
| 14. Fundamental distribution law |
| 15. The distribution law of a component and its energy |
| 16. Generating functions |
| 17. Conjugate distribute functions |
| 18. Systems consisting of a large number of components |
| Chapter V. Application of the Central Limit Theorem |
| 19. Approximate expressions of structure functions |
| 20. The small component and its energy. Boltzmann's law |
| 21. Mean values of the sum functions |
| 22. Energy distribution law of the large component |
| 23. Example of monatomic ideal gas |
| 24. The theorem of equipartition of energy |
| 25. A system in thermal equilibrium. Canonical distribution of Gibbs |
| Chapter VI. Ideal Monatomic Gas |
| 26. Velocity distribution. Maxwell's law |
| 27. The gas pressure |
| 28. Physical interpretation of the parameter |
| 29. Gas pressure in an arbitrary field of force |
| Chapter VII. The Foundation of Thermodynamics |
| 30. External parameters and the mean values of external forces |
| 31. The volume of the gas as an external parameter |
| 32. The second law of thermodynamics |
| 33. The properties of entropy |
| 34. Other thermodynamical functions |
| Chapter VIII. Dispersion and the Distributions of Sum Functions |
| 35. The intermolecular correlation |
| 36. Dispersion and distribution laws of the sum functions |
| Appendix |
| The proof of the central limit theorem of the theory of probability |
| Notations |
| Index |