Wio, Horacio Sergio; Deza, Roberto Raúl; López, Juan Manuel An introduction to stochastic processes and nonequilibrium statistical physics. Revised ed. (English) Zbl 1276.82003 Series on Advances in Statistical Mechanics 19. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific (ISBN 978-981-4374-78-1/hbk). xvii, 315 p. (2012). This book “aims to provide a compact and unified introduction to the most important aspects in the physics of non-equilibrium systems.” It is indeed compact having around 300 pages while still covering a wide range of material; the authors move from the Chapman-Kolmogorov equation to pattern and surface formation covering more classical topics like Onsager and BBGKY on the way.The content is clearly explained and helpfully illustrated with a range of figures; it provides an interesting and enjoyable read. Because of the compact nature of the book, one regularly flips back to clarify earlier material, something made easy by clear sectioning and sub-titles. The presentation is via detailed formal (limits are interchanged without comment, etc.) mathematical arguments; these become less complete towards the end of the book. Reviewer: Robert I. A. Patterson (Berlin) Cited in 6 Documents MSC: 82-01 Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to statistical mechanics 60K40 Other physical applications of random processes 82B03 Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics 82C31 Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics Keywords:nonequilibrium; Fokker Planck; stability; pattern formation; noise; surface growth Citations:Zbl 0839.60093 PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{H. S. Wio} et al., An introduction to stochastic processes and nonequilibrium statistical physics. Revised ed. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific (2012; Zbl 1276.82003)