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When Things Grow Many : Complexity, Universality and Emergence in Nature, Hardback Book

When Things Grow Many : Complexity, Universality and Emergence in Nature Hardback

Part of the Oxford Graduate Texts series

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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.

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