Disordered and Complex Systems

This book arose from a conference on Disordered and Complex Systems held at Kings College, London. It takes a broad view of the topic, containing articles on glassy systems and neural networks, information geometry, quantum chaos, reaction-diffusion equations, and mathematical finance. Exciting common threads appear; to give just two examples: information geometry appears in neural network learning, quantum mechanics and interest rate theory, and systems of economic agents can show glassy features.