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Title: Applications of Statistical Physics by A. Gadomski, Janos Kertesz, H. Eugene Stanley, Nicolas Vandewalle, ADAM GADOMSKI, N. Vandewalle ISBN: 0-444-50409-5 Publisher: North-Holland Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $87.00

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Summary: APPLICATIONS OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS, by Gadomski A. et al.
Comment: Dear Could-Be Reader of "Applications of Statistical Physics": First of, I am one of the editors of the book that I am going to review. Therefore, because of clear reasons I wish to underscore that the book stands formally for an imprint of the Special Issue of Physica A 274/1-2, which means, an international and quite commonly accepted journal on statistical mechanics. This book is, in my very "privite" opinion, a collection of things that reflect at first glance: (i) quite commonly noticeable nowodays tendency of stat physics to get more and more specialized topics as well as areas of exploration, i.e. a tendency to split up into applications in different areas of interdisciplinary research done, for example, in biophysics, physical chemistry and electrochemistry, medicine, economics&finance, epidemiology, meteorology, etc. (a GLOBAL character of the 'state of the art') (ii) wishes of stat physicists to have their tools as being more and more efficient and self-contained to be capable of revealing just the germ of a certain phenomenon under study (a LOCAL character of the 'state of the art'; see, applications of the so-called scaling concept in different areas of research). This having been said, the book contains a GAP between the globality and locality just mentioned, so that it is somehow DISCONTINUOUS as probably all the physics books nowadays seem to be. But this undoubtedly means that this book stands on a real ground, reflects this way at least some of fears of modern quantitative science, and shows somehow, perhaps indirectly, how to remedy the situation that appeared also in (statistical) physics at the millennary turnover (or, at least, how to go on in a few next steps). In other words, I wish to say that the book is therefore so much interesting, because it reveals, just by its content, necked (also, promising) truth of the discipline under presentation. In my opinion, the truth sounds probably: The research must proceeds in a "complex way", which means, in inderdisciplinary, though very specialized but interactive groups of researchers. Moreover, the book contains a SELECTION of invited papers as well as contributions of very world-wide physicists, working in this area of interest, including the Nobel Price Winner'91 in Physics P.-G. De Gennes from Paris (opening paper) as well as many really prominent scientist and their possible successors. With best regards. Yours, sincerely, Adam Gadomski /editor/