Complexity And Criticality
$317.29
- Hardcover
408 pages
- Release Date
4 October 2005
Summary
This book provides a challenging and stimulating introduction to the contemporary topics of complexity and criticality, and explores their common basis. Criticality refers to the behaviour of extended systems at a phase transition where scale invariance prevails; the many constituent microscopic parts bringing about macroscopic phenomena that cannot be understood by considering a single part alone. The phenomenology of phase transitions is introduced by considering percolation, a simple mo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781860945045 |
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| ISBN-10: | 186094504X |
| Author: | Kim Christensen, Nicholas R. Moloney |
| Publisher: | Imperial College Press |
| Imprint: | Imperial College Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Release Date: | 4 October 2005 |
| Weight: | 789g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 155mm x 235mm |
| Series: | Imperial College Press Advanced Physics Texts |
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I enjoyed reading this book very much. The arguments are clear and draw attention to a number of useful insights …
“Personally, I enjoyed reading this book very much. The arguments are clear and draw attention to a number of useful insights … Students will find the presentation on self-organized criticality fun to read, particularly because it deals with real phenomena, such as earthquakes, rice-pile avalanches and rainfall … I strongly agree with these authors that undergraduates need to be exposed to issues related to complexity and criticality. Their textbook is the first that I have seen that makes developing such courses feasible.“Mathematical Reviews
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