Statistical Optics (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics)

This is a well-written book on a very complex subject with highly diverse applicability. Dr. Goodman is known around the world as an absolute master in Fourier and statistical optics. This book should be on the shelf of anyone working in the field of optics.

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good book

The word 'Wiley' in the lower right corner is really cut at the letter 'Y', and the book looks as if it was a shrunken head. The book costs $120 and they're cutting corners like that in a way that really diminishes the quality of the book and makes it harder to read; the pages inside are also compromised, since it's very hard to read the things on the right edge of the left pages, and the left edge of the right pages, especially that I like to underline some things while reading.I had to take the book for a course, and the book is great. It's the best book to read after finishing Goodman's Fourier Optics, and O'Neill's Statistical Optics (which covers a slightly different area, with many overlapping subjects), and is also an excellent introduction to advanced imaging topics and applications in the real world, either from Remote Sensing, or Medical Imaging. But for a really expensive book, these attempts at cutting corners have really compromised the quality of the book and made it much harder to read. I really wish to give this book a better review, as the book is highly deserving of a good review, but this is print is lousy in its size to merit the higher score, and this proved to be too much of an annoyance.(Enclosed is a picture that shows how the text in the back of cover is cropped.)

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