NONEXTENSIVE ENTROPY by Murray Gell-Mann (Editor), Constantino Tsallis (Editor) ( 9780195159776 )

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NONEXTENSIVE ENTROPY
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS

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Murray Gell-Mann (Editor), Constantino Tsallis (Editor)

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC

Pub. date:

13 March, 2004

Series:

Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity

Pages:

438

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 statisticalmechanics 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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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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