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3. There are volumes devoted to precise definitions of ergodicity and related concepts. Our approach will be heuristic
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5. K. Huang, Statistical Mechanics (CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1987), 2nd ed. The derivation of the distribution function for the canonical ensemble (Boltzmann or Gibbs statistics) is better discussed in the first edition of this book (published by Wiley, New York, 1963)