Behavior at Infinity Via Probability and Potential Theory

In the Preface, J. C. Taylor explains that while the book was initially intended as a loose proceedings for a seminar he organized in 1992, it evolved into something quite different. As a result, several of the papers in the book under review contain results and approaches which are more recent. In particular, three of the papers are related, to various degrees, to the monograph [?] that Taylor published in 1998 with Yves Guivarc'h and Lizhen Ji. These are the papers by Anker and Ji, by Guivarc'h and by Taylor himself. The papers by presenters Steve Evans and François Ledrappier are closest to being in tune with the initial intent of this book along with the article by Alessandro Figa-Talamanca who was a participant of the workshop but did not present. The reviewer found the papers by these 3 authors to be particularly accessible for non-experts (a category he admits belonging to), this being particularly true of the expositions of Evans and Figa-Talamanca. There is a phrase by Ledrappier which is particularly illuminating (not only about his contribution but about the whole book). " These notes illustrate