"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Nuclear scattering and density-density correlation function -- 1.2. Linear response and retarded correlation functions -- 1.3. Thermodynamic properties and Green's functionpart I. Digest of many-body theory. 2. Elements of quantum mechanics -- 2.1. Thermodynamics of quantum systems -- 2.2. Time dep…