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title: Editorial: English translation of “The Oosawa Lectures on DIY Statistical Mechanics”
date: 2021-12-10
journal: Biophys Physicobiol
DOI: 10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v18.s001
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minimal changes and corrections to express our respect for Oosawa. We hope that readers will be able to comprehend and feel Oosawa's unique perspective in confronting natural phenomena. We acknowledge that it is difficult to completely reflect the original intentions of Oosawa in this translation and the editorial translation team offers its apologies in advance for any imprecise wording present within this English version.

The COVID-19 pandemic restricts the face-to-face social communication in the world recently. Thus, playing dice and chip games with your friends is difficult at present, but you can also play alone as Oosawa did. It was Prof. Oosawa's strong feeling that playing dice and chip games by hand was both a powerful and fun way to develop an intuitive understanding of the complex field of statistical mechanics. It has also proved to be extremely useful for furthering our understanding in research on molecular machines and single-molecule analysis.

In closing this prologue, we would like to pray for Fumio Oosawa and to thank his bereaved family for agreeing to publish this English version in this journal.

Masayo Inoue, Meiji University; Noritaka Masaki, National Institute of Genetics; Kiyoshi Ohnuma, Nagaoka University of Technology; Masako Ohtaki; and Taro Toyota, The University of Tokyo; Author names are listed in alphabetical order (with all authors having contributed equally)

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The translation team would thank Yoshie Harada (Osaka University; President, Biophysical Society of Japan) and Haruki Nakamura (Osaka University; Editor-in-Chief, Biophysics and Physicobiology) for their support of the project. We also thank Damien Hall (Kanazawa University) for additional proofreading of the manuscript.