Title New Directions in Statistical Physics : Econophysics, Bioinformatics, and Pattern Recognition Author(s) Wille, Luc T Publication Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004. Description XVIII, 363 p. 181 illus., 22 illus. in color : online resource Abstract Note Statistical physics addresses the study and understanding of systems with many degrees of freedom. As such it has a rich and varied history, with applications to thermodynamics, magnetic phase transitions, and order/disorder transformations, to name just a few. However, the tools of statistical physics can be profitably used to investigate any system with a large number of components. Thus, recent years have seen these methods applied in many unexpected directions, three of which are the main focus of this volume. These applications have been remarkably successful and have enriched the financial, biological, and engineering literature. Although reported in the physics literature, the results tend to be scattered and the underlying unity of the field overlooked. This book provides a unique insight into the latest breakthroughs in a consistent manner, at a level accessible to undergraduates, yet with enough attention to the theory and computation to satisfy the professional researcher ISBN,Price 9783662089682 Keyword(s) 1. Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics 2. BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS 3. BIOPHYSICS 4. COMPLEX SYSTEMS 5. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS 6. EBOOK 7. EBOOK - SPRINGER 8. ECONOMIC THEORY 9. Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods 10. Image Processing and Computer Vision 11. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS 12. OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING 13. STATISTICAL PHYSICS 14. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems 15. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I10696     On Shelf