Overview
- Gives a unifying view of large deviations
- Presents modern aspects of equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics, disordered and chaotic systems and turbulence
- Covers both theory and applications
- Discusses numerical aspects in detail
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 885)
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Book Title: Large Deviations in Physics
Book Subtitle: The Legacy of the Law of Large Numbers
Editors: Angelo Vulpiani, Fabio Cecconi, Massimo Cencini, Andrea Puglisi, Davide Vergni
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54251-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-54250-3Published: 06 June 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-54251-0Published: 16 May 2014
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 314
Number of Illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Classical Mechanics, Complex Systems, Applications of Mathematics, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems