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- BBGKY hierarchy
 - Boltzmann average
 - Boltzmann constant
 - Boltzmann distribution
 - Boltzmann factor
 - Born-Green equation
 - Brownian motion
 
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- Law of corresponding states
 - Liouville's theorem
 - Loschmidt's paradox (Umkehreinwand)
 - Lyapunov exponents
 
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- Pair distribution function
 - Parrondo's paradox
 - Partition function
 - Phase space
 - Phase transitions
 - Poincaré theorem
 - Pressure
 - Pressure equation (aka. virial equation)
 
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- Zermelo’s paradox (Wiederkehreinwand)
 
General interest
- D. Ter Haar "Foundations of Statistical Mechanics", Reviews of Modern Physics 27 pp. 289 - 338 (1955)
 - O. Penrose "Foundations of statistical mechanics", Reports on Progress in Physics 42 pp. 1937-2006 (1979)
 - P. W. Anderson "More Is Different", Science 177 pp. 393-396 (1972)
 - J. S. Rowlinson "The evolution of some statistical mechanical ideas", Molecular Physics 104 pp. 3399 - 3410 (2006)
 - Elliott H. Lieb "Some problems in statistical mechanics that I would like to see solved", Physica A 263 pp. 491-499 (1999)
 - Joel L. Lebowitz "Emergent Phenomena", Physik Journal 6 #9 pp. 41-46 (2007)