The Physics of Foraging: An Introduction to Random Searches and Biological Encounters - Hardcover

Viswanathan, Gandhimohan. M.; Da Luz, Marcos G. E.; Raposo, Ernesto P.; Stanley, H. Eugene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107006791 ISBN 13: 9781107006799

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Introducing random searches and foraging for physicists and ecologists.

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About the Authors

Gandhimohan M. Viswanathan is Professor of Physics at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Previously, he was Associate Professor at the Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, where he spent over a decade investigating the complex phenomenology seen in physical, biological and economic systems.

Marcos G. E. da Luz is an Associate Professor in the Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Paraná. He works with both numerical and analytical methods in disorder, complexity and non-linearity in classical and quantum systems and with theoretical models in ecology.

Ernesto P. Raposo is an Associate Professor in the Laboratório de Física Teórica e Computacional, Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. His current research interests include statistical physics of random searches and the foraging problem, disordered antiferromagnets, and quantum field theory of quasi-unidimensional magnetic polymer chains.

H. Eugene Stanley is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Polymer Studies, Boston University, Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, and Professor of Physiology at Boston University School of Medicine. A pioneer in interdisciplinary science, he has won the Boltzmann Medal and numerous other awards for his contributions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107006791
• ISBN 13: 9781107006799
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 178