Nonextensive Entropy - Interdisciplinary Applications

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Murray Gell-Mann, Murray (Professor Gell-Mann, Murray Tsallis Gell-Mann
• Assisted by: Murray Gell-Mann (Editor), Murray (Professor Gell-Mann (Editor), Constantino Tsallis (Editor), Constantino (Professor Tsallis (Editor), ConstantinoC. Tsallis (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.03.2004
• EAN: 9780195159776
• ISBN: 978-0-19-515977-6
• No. of pages: 438
• Series: Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity; Santa Fe Institute Studies on; Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Miscellaneous