"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Equation of state for QGP and hadronic resonance gas -- Introduction -- Equation of state for QGP with vanishing quark mass -- Hadronic resonance gas -- The van der Waals equation of state -- HRG in the excluded volume method -- The statistical bootstrap model -- Extended HRGModeling relativistic heavy ion collisions -- I…