Nonextensive Entropy - Interdisciplinary Applications (Paperback, New)

A great variety of complex phenomena in many scientific fields exhibit power-law behaviour, 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. During recent years a good deal of study has been devoted to a nonextensive generalizations 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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity
Release date:	April 2004
First published:	April 2004
Editors:	Murray Gell-Mann (Professor) • Constantino Tsallis (Professor)
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	438
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-515977-6
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Thermodynamics & statistical physics > Thermodynamics
LSN:	0-19-515977-2
Barcode:	9780195159776

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