Nonextensive Entropy: Interdisciplinary Applications (Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195159764 ISBN 13: 9780195159769

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2004

Synopsis

A great variety of complex phenomena in many scientific fields exhibit power-law behavior, reflecting a hierarchical or fractal structure. Many of these phenomena seem to be susceptible to description using approaches drawn from thermodynamics or statistical mechanics, particularly approaches involving the maximization of entropy and of Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics and standard laws in a natural way. The book addresses the interdisciplinary applications of these ideas, and also on various phenomena that could possibly be quantitatively describable in terms of these ideas.

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About the Author

Murray Gell-Mann is at Sante Fe Institute. Constantino Tsallis is at Brazilian Center for Physics Research.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195159764
• ISBN 13: 9780195159769
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 440
• Editor: Gell-Mann Murray, Tsallis Constantino