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Nonextensive entropy : interdisciplinary applications / editors, Murray Gell-Mann, Constantino Tsallis.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Statistical mechanics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 422 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780197562024
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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