Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences Chaos, Fractals, Selforganization and Disorder: Concepts and Tools

Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences Chaos, Fractals, Selforganization and Disorder: Concepts and Tools / by Didier Sornette.

Concepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as uncorrelated, phenomena are being applied ever increasingly in the natural sciences, biology and economics in an attempt to understand and model the large variability and risks of phenomena. This is the fi...

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Main Author: Sornette, Didier (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edition:2nd ed. 2006.
Series:Springer Series in Synergetics,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Statistical physics.
Dynamical systems.
Earth sciences.
Game theory.
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Table of Contents:
  • Useful Notions of Probability Theory
  • Sums of Random Variables, Random Walks and the Central Limit Theorem
  • Large Deviations
  • Power Law Distributions
  • Fractals and Multifractals
  • Rank-Ordering Statistics and Heavy Tails
  • Statistical Mechanics: Probabilistic Point of View and the Concept of “Temperature”
  • Long-Range Correlations
  • Phase Transitions: Critical Phenomena and First-Order Transitions
  • Transitions, Bifurcations and Precursors
  • The Renormalization Group
  • The Percolation Model
  • Rupture Models
  • Mechanisms for Power Laws
  • Self-Organized Criticality
  • to the Physics of Random Systems
  • Randomness and Long-Range Laplacian Interactions.

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