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Sociophysics

Author : Serge Galam
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461420318
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Sociophysics written by Serge Galam and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do humans behave much like atoms? Sociophysics, which uses tools and concepts from the physics of disordered matter to describe some aspects of social and political behavior, answers in the affirmative. But advocating the use of models from the physical sciences to understand human behavior could be perceived as tantamount to dismissing the existence of human free will and also enabling those seeking manipulative skills . This thought-provoking book argues it is just the contrary. Indeed, future developments and evaluation will either show sociophysics to be inadequate, thus supporting the hypothesis that people can primarily be considered to be free agents, or valid, thus opening the path to a radically different vision of society and personal responsibility. This book attempts to explain why and how humans behave much like atoms, at least in some aspects of their collective lives, and then proposes how this knowledge can serve as a unique key to a dramatic leap forwards in achieving more social freedom in the real world. At heart, sociophysics and this book are about better comprehending the richness and potential of our social interaction, and so distancing ourselves from inanimate atoms.

Econophysics

Author : Sitabhra Sinha
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 3527408150
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book Econophysics written by Sitabhra Sinha and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling the gap for an up-to-date textbook in this relatively new interdisciplinary research field, this volume provides readers with a thorough and comprehensive introduction. Based on extensive teaching experience, it includes numerous worked examples and highlights in special biographical boxes some of the most outstanding personalities and their contributions to both physics and economics. The whole is rounded off by several appendices containing important background material.

Statistical Physics and Economics

Author : Michael Schulz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0387217134
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Statistical Physics and Economics written by Michael Schulz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This systematic book covers in simple language the physical foundations of evolution equations, stochastic processes and generalized Master equations applied on complex economic systems, helping to understand the large variability of financial markets, trading and communications networks.

Ettore Majorana

Author : Giuseppe-Franco Bassani
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540480951
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Ettore Majorana written by Giuseppe-Franco Bassani and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-05 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century after his birth, Ettore Majorana is rightfully considered one of the greatest physicists of the first half of the last century. With this volume the Italian Physical Society presents a collection of Ettore Majorana's scientific papers in the original language and, for the first time -- with three exceptions -- translated into English. Each paper is then followed by a comment in English of an expert in the scientific field.

Applications of Statistical Physics

Author : A. Gadomski
Publisher : North Holland
ISBN 13 : 9780444504098
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Applications of Statistical Physics written by A. Gadomski and published by North Holland. This book was released on 2000-01-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of statistical physics has undergone a spectacular development in recent years. The fundamentals of the subject have advanced dynamically with multidisciplinary approaches involving physicists, chemists and mathematicians. Equally spectacular has been the development of applications of statistical mechanics to shed light on a wide range of problems, many of them arising in fields quite distant from traditional physics disciplines. Recent applications range from such topics as oil recovery from porous rock to protein folding, DNA structure, morphogenesis and the cooperative behavior of living creatures. Concepts and methods of statistical physics have been applied successfully to "exotic" problems that seem to be far from physics, such as vehicular and pedestrial traffic, or economy and finance. This book presents not only the keynote invited talks, but a number of high quality, interesting, contributed communications from senior scientists and young students active in the field. Topics covered include DNA migration, wetting, chemical waves, granular media, molecular motors, biological pattern formation and motion, as well as practical problems such as heart diagnosis, internet traffic jamming, oil recovery and econophysics.

A Concise Introduction to the Statistical Physics of Complex Systems

Author : Eric Bertin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642239234
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis A Concise Introduction to the Statistical Physics of Complex Systems by : Eric Bertin

Download or read book A Concise Introduction to the Statistical Physics of Complex Systems written by Eric Bertin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise primer (based on lectures given at summer schools on complex systems and on a masters degree course in complex systems modeling) will provide graduate students and newcomers to the field with the basic knowledge of the concepts and methods of statistical physics and its potential for application to interdisciplinary topics. Indeed, in recent years, statistical physics has begun to attract the interest of a broad community of researchers in the field of complex system sciences, ranging from biology to the social sciences, economics and computer science. More generally, a growing number of graduate students and researchers feel the need to learn some basic concepts and questions originating in other disciplines without necessarily having to master all of the corresponding technicalities and jargon. Generally speaking, the goals of statistical physics may be summarized as follows: on the one hand to study systems composed of a large number of interacting ‘entities’, and on the other to predict the macroscopic (or collective) behavior of the system considered from the microscopic laws ruling the dynamics of the individual ‘entities’. These two goals are, to some extent, also shared by what is nowadays called ‘complex systems science’ and for these reasons, systems studied in the framework of statistical physics may be considered as among the simplest examples of complex systems—allowing in addition a rather well developed mathematical treatment.

Sociophysics: An Introduction

Author : Parongama Sen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199662452
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Sociophysics: An Introduction written by Parongama Sen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the study and analysis of the physical aspects of social systems and models, inspired by the analogy with familiar models of physical systems and possible applications of statistical physics tools. Unlike the traditional analysis of the physics of macroscopic many-body or condensed matter systems, which is now an established and mature subject, the upsurge in the physical analysis and modelling of social systems, which are clearly many-body dynamical systems, is a recent phenomenon. Though the major developments in sociophysics have taken place only recently, the earliest attempts of proposing "Social Physics" as a discipline are more than one and a half centuries old. Various developments in the mainstream physics of condensed matter systems have inspired and induced the recent growth of sociophysical analysis and models. In spite of the tremendous efforts of many scientists in recent years, the subject is still in its infancy and major challenges are yet to be taken up. An introduction to these challenges is the main motivation for this book.

Beyond Quantum

Author : Andrei Khrennikov
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9814411736
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Quantum written by Andrei Khrennikov and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present wave of interest in quantum foundations is caused by the tremendous development of quantum information science and its applications to quantum computing and quantum communication. It has become clear that some of the difficulties encountered in realizations of quantum information processing have roots at the very fundamental level. To solve such problems, quantum theory has to be reconsidered. This book is devoted to the analysis of the probabilistic structure of quantum theory, probing the limits of classical probabilistic representation of quantum phenomena.

Complexity, Heterogeneity, and the Methods of Statistical Physics in Economics

Author : Hideaki Aoyama
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811548064
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Book Synopsis Complexity, Heterogeneity, and the Methods of Statistical Physics in Economics by : Hideaki Aoyama

Download or read book Complexity, Heterogeneity, and the Methods of Statistical Physics in Economics written by Hideaki Aoyama and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book systematically provides a prospective integrated approach for complexity social science in its view of statistical physics and mathematics, with an impressive collection of the knowledge and expertise of leading researchers from all over the world. The book mainly covers both finitary methods of statistical equilibrium and data-driven analysis by econophysics. The late Professor Masanao Aoki of UCLA, who passed away at the end of July 2018, in his later years dedicated himself to the reconstruction of macroeconomics mainly in terms of statistical physics. Professor Aoki, who was already an IEEE fellow, was also named an Econometric Society Fellow in 1979. Until the early 1990s, however, his contributions were focused on the new developments of a novel algorithm for the time series model and their applications to economic data. Those contributions were undoubtedly equivalent to the Nobel Prize-winning work of Granger's "co-integration method". After the publications of his New Approaches to Macroeconomic Modeling and Modeling Aggregate Behavior and Fluctuations in Economics, both published by Cambridge University Press, in 1996 and 2002, respectively, his contributions rapidly became known and spread throughout the field. In short, these new works challenged econophysicists to develop evolutionary stochastic dynamics, multiple equilibria, and externalities as field effects and revolutionized the stochastic views of interacting agents. In particular, the publication of Reconstructing Macroeconomics, also by Cambridge University Press (2007), in cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshikawa, further sharpened the process of embodying “a perspective from statistical physics and combinatorial stochastic processes” in economic modeling. Interestingly, almost concurrently with Prof. Aoki’s newest development, similar approaches were appearing. Thus, those who were working in the same context around the world at that time came together, exchanging their results during the past decade. In memory of Prof. Aoki, this book has been planned by authors who followed him to present the most advanced outcomes of his heritage.

Mathematical Modeling of Collective Behavior in Socio-Economic and Life Sciences

Author : Giovanni Naldi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0817649468
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (176 download)

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Book Synopsis Mathematical Modeling of Collective Behavior in Socio-Economic and Life Sciences by : Giovanni Naldi

Download or read book Mathematical Modeling of Collective Behavior in Socio-Economic and Life Sciences written by Giovanni Naldi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using examples from finance and modern warfare to the flocking of birds and the swarming of bacteria, the collected research in this volume demonstrates the common methodological approaches and tools for modeling and simulating collective behavior. The topics presented point toward new and challenging frontiers of applied mathematics, making the volume a useful reference text for applied mathematicians, physicists, biologists, and economists involved in the modeling of socio-economic systems.

Econophysics

Author : Gheorghe Savoiu
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0124046266
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Econophysics written by Gheorghe Savoiu and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable evolution of econophysics research has brought the deep synthesis of ideas derived from economics and physics to subjects as diverse as education, banking, finance, and the administration of large institutions. The original papers in this collection present a broad summary of these advances, written by interdisciplinary specialists. Included are studies on subjects in the development of econophysics; on the perspectives offered by econophysics on large problems in economics and finance, including the 2008-9 financial crisis; and on higher education and group decision making. The introductions and insights they provide will benefit everyone interested in applications of this new transdisciplinary science. Ten papers present an updated version of the origins, issues, and applications of econophysics Economics and finance chapters consider lessons learned from the 2008-9 financial crisis Sociophysics chapters propose new thinking on educational reforms and group decision making

The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets

Author : Johannes Voit
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662044234
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets written by Johannes Voit and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A careful examination of the interaction between physics and finance. It takes a look at the 100-year-long history of co-operation between the two fields and goes on to provide new research results on capital markets - taken from the field of statistical physics. The random walk model, well known in physics, is one good example of where the two disciplines meet. In the world of finance it is the basic model upon which the Black-Scholes theory of option pricing and hedging has been built. The underlying assumptions are discussed using empirical financial data and analogies to physical models such as fluid flows, turbulence, or superdiffusion. On this basis, new theories of derivative pricing and risk control can be formulated.

Foundations and Applications of Complexity Economics

Author : J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030706680
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Book Synopsis Foundations and Applications of Complexity Economics by : J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.

Download or read book Foundations and Applications of Complexity Economics written by J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a survey of the aspects of economic complexity, with a focus on foundational, interdisciplinary ideas. The long-awaited follow up to his 2011 volume Complex Evolutionary Dynamics in Urban-Regional and Ecologic-Economic Systems: From Catastrophe to Chaos and Beyond, this volume draws together the threads of Rosser’s earlier work on complexity theory and its wide applications in economics and an expanded list of related disciplines. The book begins with a full account of the broader categories of complexity in economics--dynamic, computational, hierarchical, and structural--before shifting to more detailed analysis. The next two chapters address problems associated with computational complexity, especially those of computability, and discuss the Godel Incompleteness Theorem with a focus on reflexivity. The middle chapters discuss the relationship between entropy, econophysics, evolution, and economic complexity, respectively, with applications in urban and regional dynamics, ecological economics, general equilibrium theory, as well as financial market dynamics. The final chapter works to bring together these themes into a broader framework and expose some of the limits concerning analysis of deeper foundational issues. With applications in all disciplines characterized by interconnected nonlinear adaptive systems, this book is appropriate for graduate students, professors and practitioners in economics and related disciplines such as regional science, mathematics, physics, biology, environmental sciences, philosophy, and psychology.

Quantum Social Science

Author : Emmanuel Haven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139851497
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Quantum Social Science written by Emmanuel Haven and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by world experts in the foundations of quantum mechanics and its applications to social science, this book shows how elementary quantum mechanical principles can be applied to decision-making paradoxes in psychology and used in modelling information in finance and economics. The book starts with a thorough overview of some of the salient differences between classical, statistical and quantum mechanics. It presents arguments on why quantum mechanics can be applied outside of physics and defines quantum social science. The issue of the existence of quantum probabilistic effects in psychology, economics and finance is addressed and basic questions and answers are provided. Aimed at researchers in economics and psychology, as well as physics, basic mathematical preliminaries and elementary concepts from quantum mechanics are defined in a self-contained way.

Statistical Physics for Biological Matter

Author : Wokyung Sung
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 940241584X
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Statistical Physics for Biological Matter written by Wokyung Sung and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to cover a broad range of topics in statistical physics, including statistical mechanics (equilibrium and non-equilibrium), soft matter and fluid physics, for applications to biological phenomena at both cellular and macromolecular levels. It is intended to be a graduate level textbook, but can also be addressed to the interested senior level undergraduate. The book is written also for those involved in research on biological systems or soft matter based on physics, particularly on statistical physics. Typical statistical physics courses cover ideal gases (classical and quantum) and interacting units of simple structures. In contrast, even simple biological fluids are solutions of macromolecules, the structures of which are very complex. The goal of this book to fill this wide gap by providing appropriate content as well as by explaining the theoretical method that typifies good modeling, namely, the method of coarse-grained descriptions that extract the most salient features emerging at mesoscopic scales. The major topics covered in this book include thermodynamics, equilibrium statistical mechanics, soft matter physics of polymers and membranes, non-equilibrium statistical physics covering stochastic processes, transport phenomena and hydrodynamics. Generic methods and theories are described with detailed derivations, followed by applications and examples in biology. The book aims to help the readers build, systematically and coherently through basic principles, their own understanding of nonspecific concepts and theoretical methods, which they may be able to apply to a broader class of biological problems.

Foundations of Complex-system Theories

Author : Sunny Y. Auyang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521778268
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Complex-system Theories written by Sunny Y. Auyang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes approaches to the study of complexity in the physical, biological, and social sciences.

Nonlinear Maps and their Applications

Author : Ricardo López-Ruiz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319123289
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Nonlinear Maps and their Applications written by Ricardo López-Ruiz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the field of Dynamical Systems, nonlinear iterative processes play an important role. Nonlinear mappings can be found as immediate models for many systems from different scientific areas, such as engineering, economics, biology, or can also be obtained via numerical methods permitting to solve non-linear differential equations. In both cases, the understanding of specific dynamical behaviors and phenomena is of the greatest interest for scientists. This volume contains papers that were presented at the International Workshop on Nonlinear Maps and their Applications (NOMA 2013) held in Zaragoza, Spain, on September 3-4, 2013. This kind of collaborative effort is of paramount importance in promoting communication among the various groups that work in dynamical systems and networks in their research theoretical studies as well as for applications. This volume is suitable for graduate students as well as researchers in the field.