When Things Grow Many Complexity, Universality and Emergence in Nature
Methods of statistical mechanics are applied to many natural phenomena in the limit of large numbers of constituents. Applications include linguistics, finance, urban segregation, firefly and cardiac synchrony, Supreme Court voting, ecology, flocking, epidemics, crowd control, genetics, neurology, a...
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2022, 2021
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Ideal gas
- 3 Rubber bands
- 4 Percolitis
- 5 Ferromagnetism
- 6 Maximum entropy methods
- 7 Power laws
- 8 Universality, renormalization and critical phenomena
- 9 Social sciences
- 10 Biological sciences
- 11 Physical sciences
- 12 Putting it all together