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=== ''Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics'' ===

'''''Thermodynamik und Statistik''''', the fifth volume of Sommerfeld's ''Lectures'', was edited by [[Fritz Bopp]] and [[Josef Meixner]] and published posthumously in 1952 by [[Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung]]. The book was translated into the English volume '''''Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics''''' by [[Joseph Kestin]] and published in 1956 by [[Academic Press]]. The book was reviewed by [[Rudolf Peierls]]<ref name=PeierlsFive>{{Cite journal|last=Peierls|first=R. E.|author-link=Rudolf Peierls|date=August 1956|title=[Book Reviews]|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/178288b0|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=178|issue=4528|pages=288|doi=10.1038/178288b0|bibcode=1956Natur.178..288P|s2cid=4176533|issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free}}</ref> and several others.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Emmons|first=H.|date=1957|title=Review of Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43634415|journal=Quarterly of Applied Mathematics|volume=15|issue=1|pages=64|jstor=43634415|issn=0033-569X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ross|first=A. W.|date=1956|title=Review of Lectures on Theoretical Physics. vol. V, Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1750843|journal=Science|volume=124|issue=3211|pages=84|jstor=1750843|issn=0036-8075}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=R.|first=G. S.|date=1957|title=Review of Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. Academic Books|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43416382|journal=Science Progress (1933– )|volume=45|issue=178|pages=348–349|jstor=43416382|issn=0036-8504}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nachtrieb|first=Norman H.|date=August 1956|title=Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. Vol. V|url=http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3060071|journal=Physics Today|language=en|volume=9|issue=8|pages=39–40|doi=10.1063/1.3060071|bibcode=1956PhT.....9h..39S|issn=0031-9228}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Silver|first=R S|date=August 1956|title=Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics by Arnold Sommerfeld|url=https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-9112/7/8/005|journal=Physics Bulletin|volume=7|issue=8|pages=222–223|doi=10.1088/0031-9112/7/8/005|issn=0031-9112}}</ref> After summarizing the book's contents in his 1956 review of the volume, Peierls wrote, "The book is a welcome addition to the text-books on this subject."<ref name=PeierlsFive />

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