1. Edition - October 2010
69.- Euro
2010. XIV, 355 Pages, Softcover
120 Fig.
- Textbook -
ISBN-10: 3-527-40815-0
ISBN-13: 978-3-527-40815-3 - Wiley-VCH, Berlin






Content

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Short description
Filling the gap for an up-to-date textbook in this relatively new field, this is a thorough and comprehensive introduction. Based on extensive teaching experience, it includes numerous worked examples and highlights some outstanding personalities in physics and economics.

From the contents
1. Introduction
2. The Random Walk
3. Beyond the Simple Random Walk
4. Understanding Interactions through Cross-correlations
5. Why Care about the Power Law?
6. The Log-normal Distribution
7. When a Single Distribution is not enough
8. Explaining Complex Distributions with Simple Models
9. But Individuals are not Gas Molecules...
10. ... and Individuals don't Interact Randomly: Complex Networks
11. Outlook and Concluding Remarks
Appendices:
A. Thermodynamics and Free Particle Statistics
B. Interacting Systems: Mean Field Models, Fluctuations and Scaling Theories
C. Renormalization Group Technique
D. Spin Glasses and Optimisation Problems: Annealing
E. Nonequilibrium Phenomena