Overview: Presents many applications to interdisciplinary complex phenomena in virtually all sciences.Offers a detailed derivation of results, illustrations, and a pedagogical introduction of the concepts.Writt.This book focuses on nonextensive statistical mechanics, a current generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) statistical mechanics..Conceived nearly 150 years ago by Maxwell, Boltzmann and Gibbs, the BG theory, one of the greatest monuments of contemporary physics, exhibits many impressive successes in physics, chemistry, mathematics, and computational sciences. Presently, several thousand
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