The year 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of premature death of Marian Smoluchowski, an outstanding Polish physicist, a pioneer of the kinetic theory of matter currently known as statistical physics. On this occasion, we have published the volume containing:essays on Smoluchowski's life and his contribution to science,translations into English of Marian Smoluchowski's papers originally published in German, French and Polish. Among them three extremely important articles have ...
