Statistical physics books

3272 books were found.

Entropy Measures, Maximum Entropy Principle and Emerging Applications

Entropy Measures, Maximum Entropy Principle and Emerging...

Author: Karmeshu
ISBN: 9783642055317
Format: Paperback
$446.16

The last two decades have witnessed an enormous growth with regard to ap­ plications of information theoretic framework...  Read More >>

Generalized Thermodynamics: The Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes and Generalized Hydrodynamics

Generalized Thermodynamics: The Thermodynamics of Irreversible...

Author: Byung Chan Eu
ISBN: 9789048160907
Format: Paperback
$736.56

Despite a long history of almost 180 years stretching back to the times of Carnot and, later, Clausius and Lord...  Read More >>

Ergodic Theorems for Group Actions: Informational and Thermodynamical Aspects

Ergodic Theorems for Group Actions: Informational and...

Author: A.A. Tempelman
ISBN: 9789048141555
Format: Paperback
$366.96

Devoted to generalizations of the Birkhoff and von Neuman ergodic theorems to semigroup representations in Banach...  Read More >>

Exotic States in Quantum Nanostructures

Exotic States in Quantum Nanostructures

Author: Sarben Sarkar
ISBN: 9789048161799
Format: Paperback
$419.76

The topics range from the newly emerging area of quantum computers and quantum information using Josephson junctions...  Read More >>

Probability and Phase Transition

Probability and Phase Transition

Author: G.R. Grimmett
ISBN: 9789048143702
Format: Paperback
$696.96

The principal contributions by leading researchers concern the mathematical theory of random walk, interacting...  Read More >>

Recent Results in Laminar-Turbulent Transition: Selected numerical and experimental contributions from the DFG priority programme ""Transition"" in Germany

Recent Results in Laminar-Turbulent Transition: Selected...

Author: Siegfried Wagner ,  Markus Kloker
ISBN: 9783642073458
Format: Paperback
$630.96

Methodic investigations of laminar-turbulent transition in wall-bounded she­ ar flows under controlled conditions...  Read More >>

Irreversibilities in Quantum Mechanics

Irreversibilities in Quantum Mechanics

Author: B. Fain
ISBN: 9789048155644
Format: Paperback
$316.80

The present book attempts to present a unified theoretical and conceptual framework for the description of various...  Read More >>

Inference on the Low Level: An Investigation into Deduction, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, and the Philosophy of Cognition

Inference on the Low Level: An Investigation into Deduction,...

Author: Hannes Leitgeb
ISBN: 9789048166695
Format: Paperback
$578.16

In contrast to the prevailing tradition in epistemology, the focus in this book is on low-level inferences, i.e.,...  Read More >>

Dynamics and Bifurcations of Non-Smooth Mechanical Systems

Dynamics and Bifurcations of Non-Smooth Mechanical Systems...

Author: Remco I. Leine ,  Henk Nijmeijer
ISBN: 9783642060298
Format: Paperback
$498.96

A monograph that combines the knowledge of both the field of nonlinear dynamics and non-smooth mechanics, presenting...  Read More >>

Quantum versus Chaos: Questions Emerging from Mesoscopic Cosmos

Quantum versus Chaos: Questions Emerging from Mesoscopic...

Author: K. Nakamura
ISBN: 9789048148509
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Quantum and chaos, key concepts in contemporary science, are incompatible by nature. To reconcile quantum with...  Read More >>

Thermodynamics of Fluids Under Flow

Thermodynamics of Fluids Under Flow

Author: David Jou ,  José Casas-Vázquez
ISBN: 9789400701984
Format: Hardback
$340.56

This is the second edition of ""Thermodynamics of Fluids under Flow,"" which has now been corrected, expanded and...  Read More >>

Maximum Entropy, Information Without Probability and Complex Fractals: Classical and Quantum Approach

Maximum Entropy, Information Without Probability and...

Author: Guy Jumarie
ISBN: 9789048154678
Format: Paperback
$372.24

This book presents material on three topics, namely the amount of information involved in non-random functions,...  Read More >>

The Physics of Traffic: Empirical Freeway Pattern Features, Engineering Applications, and Theory

The Physics of Traffic: Empirical Freeway Pattern Features,...

Author: Boris S. Kerner
ISBN: 9783642058509
Format: Paperback
$498.96

Consequently, the author introduced a new traffic flow theory called ""three-phase traffic theory,"" which can explain...  Read More >>

New Directions in Statistical Physics: Econophysics, Bioinformatics, and Pattern Recognition

New Directions in Statistical Physics: Econophysics,...

Author: Luc T. Wille
ISBN: 9783642077395
Format: Paperback
$446.16

Statistical physics addresses the study and understanding of systems with many degrees of freedom. However, the...  Read More >>

Understanding Viscoelasticity: Basics of Rheology

Understanding Viscoelasticity: Basics of Rheology

Author: Nhan Phan-Thien
ISBN: 9783642077791
Format: Paperback
$261.36

The idea that everything has a time scale, and that if we are prepared to wait long enough then everything will...  Read More >>

Biological Evolution and Statistical Physics

Biological Evolution and Statistical Physics

Author: M. Lässig ,  A. Valleriani
ISBN: 9783642077432
Format: Paperback
$340.56

This set of lecture notes gives a first coherent account of a novel aspect of the living world that can be called...  Read More >>

The Theory of Sprays and Finsler Spaces with Applications in Physics and Biology

The Theory of Sprays and Finsler Spaces with Applications...

Author: P.L. Antonelli ,  Roman S. Ingarden
ISBN: 9789048143412
Format: Paperback
$580.77

The present book has been written by two mathematicians and one physicist: a pure mathematician specializing in...  Read More >>

Towards Quantum Gravity: Proceedings of the XXXV International Winter School on Theoretical Physics Held in Polanica, Poland, 2–11 February 1999

Towards Quantum Gravity: Proceedings of the XXXV International...

Author: Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman
ISBN: 9783642086205
Format: Paperback
$287.76

The aim of this book is to give graduate students an overview of quantum gravity but it also covers related topics...  Read More >>

Statistical Physics and Spatial Statistics: The Art of Analyzing and Modeling Spatial Structures and Pattern Formation

Statistical Physics and Spatial Statistics: The Art...

Author: Klaus R. Mecke ,  Dietrich Stoyan
ISBN: 9783642087257
Format: Paperback
$366.96

This volume aims to change this situation by presenting in a clear way fundamental concepts of spatial statistics...  Read More >>

Nonlinear Dynamics of the Lithosphere and Earthquake Prediction

Nonlinear Dynamics of the Lithosphere and Earthquake...

Author: Vladimir Keilis-Borok ,  Alexandre A. Soloviev
ISBN: 9783642078064
Format: Paperback
$419.76

The vulnerability of our civilization to earthquakes is rapidly growing, rais­ ing earthquakes to the ranks of major...  Read More >>

Asymptotic Methods for the Fokker-Planck Equation and the Exit Problem in Applications

Asymptotic Methods for the Fokker-Planck Equation and...

Author: Johan Grasman ,  Onno A., van Herwaarden
ISBN: 9783642084096
Format: Paperback
$197.87

Asymptotic methods are of great importance for practical applications, especially in dealing with boundary value...  Read More >>

Coherent Evolution in Noisy Environments

Coherent Evolution in Noisy Environments

Author: Andreas Buchleitner ,  Klaus Hornberger
ISBN: 9783642079344
Format: Paperback
$261.36

In the last two decades extraordinary progress in the experimental handling of single quantum objects has spurred...  Read More >>

Statistical Mechanics: Selecta of Elliott H. Lieb

Statistical Mechanics: Selecta of Elliott H. Lieb

Author: E.H. Lieb ,  Bruno Nachtergaele
ISBN: 9783642060922
Format: Paperback
$393.36

In Statistical Physics one of the ambitious goals is to derive rigorously, from statistical mechanics, the thermodynamic...  Read More >>

Predictive Statistical Mechanics: A Nonequilibrium Ensemble Formalism

Predictive Statistical Mechanics: A Nonequilibrium Ensemble...

Author: Roberto Luzzi ,  Áurea R. Vasconcellos
ISBN: 9789048159635
Format: Paperback
$472.56

Includes chapters that include a description of the philosophy, foundations, and construction of the formalism,...  Read More >>

Direct and Inverse Methods in Nonlinear Evolution Equations: Lectures Given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School Held in Cetraro, Italy, September 5–12, 1999

Direct and Inverse Methods in Nonlinear Evolution Equations:...

Author: Robert M. Conte ,  Antonio Maria Greco
ISBN: 9783642057533
Format: Paperback
$261.36

Those that are integrable provide various mathematical methods, presented by experts in this tutorial book, to find...  Read More >>

Latest Reading Guide

lgn

al

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List