Methods of Statistical Physics - Paperbackby Tomoyasu Tanaka (Author) This text by one of the originators of the cluster variation method of statistical mechanics is aimed at second and third year graduate students studying such topics as the theory of complex analysis, classical mechanics, classical electrodynamics, and quantum mechanics. The central theme is that, given the Hamiltonian for a system, it is possible to calculate the thermodynamics correlation function, either numerically or