Studies in Statistical Mechanics Vol VII – Fluctuation Phenomena

E W Montroll and J L Lebowitz (eds) 1979 Amsterdam: North-Holland xx + 340 pp price $58.50 This book contains review articles by Kac and Logan on such basic topics as the Fokker–Planck equation, the Boltzmann equation and Brownian motion; by Montroll and West on stochastic processes; by Zallen on the geometry of amorphous solids; by Metiu, Kitahara and Ross on statistical mechanical theories of the kinetics of phase transitions; and finally by Penrose and Lebowitz on an attempt to construct a rigorous molecular theory of metastability. The mathematical standard is high and the presentation easy to follow.