
Preface
The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive review of the present status of
perturbation theories for the equilibrium thermodynamic and structural properties of
classical systems. The scope of the book is much wider than it might appear at first
sight, because the concept of “perturbation theory” is used here in a broad sense,
embracing those theories based, in one way or another, in splitting the interaction
potential into reference and perturbation contributions.
The starting point for any statistical mechanics theory of fluids and solids is
the knowledge of the intermolecular forces, and, therefore, Chapter 1 includes some
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