When Things Grow Many
Complexity, Universality and Emergence in Nature
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 May 2025
- ISBN 9780198961925
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 246x171 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 86 line drawings, 6 colour halftones 700
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Short description:
An accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to the applications of statistical mechanics across the sciences. The book contains a discussion of the methods of statistical physics and includes mathematical explanations alongside guidance to enable the reader to translate theory into practice.
MoreLong description:
Aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduate students, When Things Grow Many is an accessible and engaging textbook introducing the theory of statistical mechanics, as well as its fascinating real-world applications. The book's original approach, which covers interdisciplinary applications of statistical mechanics to a wide range of subjects, including chemistry, biology, linguistics, economics, sociology and more, is bound to appeal to a wide audience.
While the first part of the book introduces the various methods of statistical physics, including complexity, emergence, universality, self-organized criticality, power laws and other timely topics, the final sections focus on specific relevance of these methods to the social, biological and physical sciences. The mathematical content is woven throughout the book in the form of equations, as well as further background and explanations being provided in footnotes and appendices.
This book has a good mix of interesting topics and shows the breadth of application of the statistical mechanics concepts.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Ideal Gas
Rubber Bands
Percolitis
Ferromagnetism
Maximum Entropy Methods
Power Laws
Universality, Renormalization and Critical Phenomena
Social Sciences
Biological Sciences
Physical Sciences
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