In the second edition of this book, the author has increased the text from 637 to 938 pages and features eight new chapters. The decision to remove the material on computational electromagnetics is, in my opinion, justified, as the subject has since evolved into a separate field. Instead, the emphasis is on analytical (explicit) solutions of the Maxwell equations in various configurations and formulation and discussion of a wide range of problems. Although the treatment of advanced topics is mostly introductory, the book covers so much material that one could use its index to find some information on nearly any subject in electromagnetics and its adjacent disciplines. The first part of the book, “Fundamentals,” consists of 15 chapters with homework problems and covers all upper-undergraduate curriculum on electromagnetics. It is the second half of the book on "Applications", however that makes it stand out from other textbooks. Chapters 16–26 reflect the vast expertise of the author and contain a list of well chosen references for further study of each subject. The covered topics include inverse scattering, radiometry, interferometry, stochastic wave theory, geophysical remote sensing and imaging, biomedical electromagnetics, metamaterials, turbulent, particulate and diffuse media, coherence, solitons, and acoustic and seismic waves. Without a doubt, one can find books that present any particular chapter of P rof. Ishimaru’s text in much more detail. The book is a welcome contribution to the literature and may serve as a reference for an upper-undergraduate or a graduate course on electromagnetics for electrical engineering or applied physics students and constitutes prerequisite material for a course on computers and electromagnetics.

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电磁波的传播，辐射和散射：从基本原理到应用程序[书评]

在本书的第二版中，作者将文本从637页增加到938页，并增加了八章。在我看来，决定删除计算电磁学中的材料是有道理的，因为此后该主题已演变为一个单独的领域。取而代之的是，重点在于各种配置下的麦克斯韦方程组的解析（显式）解，以及各种问题的阐述和讨论。尽管高级主题的治疗主要是介绍性的，但该书涵盖了太多材料，因此人们可以使用其索引来查找有关电磁学及其邻近学科的几乎任何学科的信息。该书的第一部分“基础知识”由15道涉及家庭作业的章节组成，涵盖了所有电磁学的高等本科课程。这是关于“应用程序”的书的后半部分，但是这使其在其他教科书中脱颖而出。第16-26章反映了作者的专业知识，并列出了可供选择的参考文献，供您进一步研究每个主题。涵盖的主题包括反散射，辐射测量，干涉测量，随机波理论，地球物理遥感和成像，生物医学电磁学，超材料，湍流，颗粒和扩散介质，相干性，孤子以及声波和地震波。毫无疑问，可以找到介绍P rof任何特定章节的书籍。Ishimaru的文字更加详细。