
Nonextensive Entropy Interdisciplinary Application
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 15. April 2004
Book
Hardback
440 pages
978-0-19-515976-9 (ISBN)
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Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
77 line illus, 22 half tones
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
737 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-515976-9 (9780195159769)
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Persons
Gell-Mann, Murray (Professor, Sante Fe Institute, USA) / Tsallis, Constantino (Brazilian Center for Physics, Brazil)