The book includes questions of thermodynamics, which together form what is commonly called “classical thermodynamics”. The first and second laws of thermodynamics and their application to binary systems, adiabatic processes, mixed crystals, etc. are presented in sufficient detail. The book was written by a major theoretical physicist of the late 19th century and will undoubtedly arouse the interest of a wide range of readers: from undergraduate and graduate students to specialist mathematicians , physicists and historians of science. 2nd ed. / Izhevsk: Research Center “Regular and Chaotic Dynamics”, 2001. - 176 pp.: ill. — ISBN 5-93972-033-1.