Introduction to Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics: Approaching a Complex World - Softcover

Tsallis, Constantino

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441927484 ISBN 13: 9781441927484

Publisher: Springer, 2010

Synopsis

With a focus firmly on nonextensive statistical mechanics, a current generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) statistical mechanics, this book covers in a comprehensive way one of the greatest monuments of contemporary physics, conceived more than 130 years ago.

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About the Author

http://tsallis.cat.cbpf.br/biblio.htm

Born in Athens-Greece, grew up in Argentina, Docteur d’ Etat from the University of Paris, established in Brazil since 1975, where he acquired the Brazilian citizenship. Many of the most recent theoretical results have, as co-author, Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel Laureate in Physics for his discovery of quarks. The author has recently done a two-year-long visit as researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico.

From the Back Cover

This book focuses on nonextensive statistical mechanics, a current generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) statistical mechanics, one of the greatest monuments of contemporary physics. Conceived more than 130 years ago by Maxwell, Boltzmann and Gibbs, the BG theory exhibits many impressive successes in physics, chemistry, mathematics, and computational sciences. Presently, several thousands of publications by scientists around the world have been dedicated to its nonextensive generalization. A variety of applications have emerged in complex systems and its mathematical grounding is by now well advanced. A pedagogical introduction to its concepts – nonlinear dynamics, extensivity of the nonadditive entropy, global correlations, and extensions of the standard central limit theorems, among others – is presented in this book, as well as a selection of paradigmatic applications in various sciences and diversified experimental verifications of some of its predictions.

Introduction to Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics is suitable for students and researchers with an interest in complex systems and statistical physics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441927484
• ISBN 13: 9781441927484
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400