B J McClelland London: Chapman and Hall 1973 pp xvi + 334 price £4 This book is intended for physical chemists and the stress is on 'working knowledge', with a basis in what the author describes as 'naive statistical theory'. I am uneasy about some details of the statistical argument in chapter 2, particularly the use of Stirling's approximation on values of n i = 0 or 1 as in the classical gas (chapter 2) and the Fermi gas (Q. 2.1).
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D S Betts (1974) studied this question.