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, neurol...

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Main Author: Schulman, L. S. (Lawrence S.), 1941- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Series:Oxford graduate texts.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"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, and so on. There is even a bit of physics (luminescence, large-scale structure, morphology). Suitable for use by advanced undergraduates (in any field) and graduate students. Some mathematical background is required although there are explanations of more advanced topics (e.g. fractals)"--Publisher's description.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191894732
0191894737
9780192606457
019260645X