Nonextensive Entropy: Interdisciplinary Applications

by Murray Gell-Mann and Constantino Tsallis

Book Overview

A great variety of complex phenomena in many scientific fields exhibit power-law behavior, 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 and of Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics and standard laws in a natural way. The book addresses the interdisciplinary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195159772
• ISBN13: 9780195159776
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"