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

• Main Author: Sornette, Didier (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Series: Springer Series in Synergetics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Earth sciences.; Game theory.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Earth Sciences, general.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.

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...