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Perspectives And Challenges In Statistical Physics And Complex Systems For The Next Decade (Hardcover)
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Perspectives And Challenges In Statistical Physics And Complex Systems For The Next Decade (Hardcover)
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Statistical Physics (SP) has followed an unusual evolutionary path
in science. Originally aiming to provide a fundamental basis for
another important branch of Physics, namely Thermodynamics, SP
gradually became an independent field of research in its own right.
But despite more than a century of steady progress, there are still
plenty of challenges and open questions in the SP realm.In fact,
the area is still rapidly evolving, in contrast to other branches
of science, which already have well defined scopes and borderlines
of applicability. This difference is due to the steadily expanding
number of applications, as well as ongoing improvements and
revisions of concepts and methods in SP. Such particular aspects of
SP lend further significance and timeliness to this book about
perspectives and trends within the field.Here, the aim is to
present the state-of-the-art vision of expert researchers who study
SP and Complex Systems. Although a comprehensive treatment is well
beyond what can be treated in a single volume, the book provides a
snapshot of the field today, as well as a glimpse of where the
field may be heading during the next decade.The book is aimed at
graduate and advanced undergraduate physics students, as well as
researchers who work with SP, Complex Systems, Computational
Physics, Biological Physics and related topics. It addresses
questions such as: What insights can be gained from recent advances
in the study of traditional problems in SP? How can SP help us
understand problems that arise in the biological sciences and in
the study of complex systems? How can new problems be formulated
using the 'language' of SP? In this way, it attempts to document
partial progress in answering these and related questions.The book
also commemorates the occasion of the 70th anniversary in 2011 of
two important physicists and friends who dedicated their lives to
the understanding of nature in general and to the development of
Statistical Physics and the science of Complexity in particular:
Liacir Lucena and H Eugene Stanley.
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