This book is a lucid, straightforward introduction to the concepts and
techniques of statistical physics that students of biology,
biochemistry, and biophysics must know. It provides a sound basis for
understanding random motions of molecules, subcellular particles, or
cells, or of processes that depend on such motion or are markedly
affected by it. Readers do not need to understand thermodynamics in
order to acquire a knowledge of the physics involved in diffusion,
sedimentation, electrophoresis, chromatography, and cell
motility--subjects that become lively and immediate when the author
discusses them in terms of random walks of individual particles.