TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sornette,Didier
TI  - Critical phenomena in natural sciences: chaos, fractals, selforganization, and disorder : concepts and tools 
T2  - Springer series in synergetics,
SN  - 9783540308829 (pbk.)
U1  - 530.474 SOR 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Springer
KW  - Critical phenomena (Physics)
KW  - Mathematical geography.
KW  - Statistical physics.
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-523) and index; 1. Useful Notions of Probability Theory
2. Sums of Random Variables, Random Walks and the Central Limit Theorem
3. Large Deviations
4. Power Law Distributions
5. Fractals and Multifractals
6. Rank-Ordering Statistics and Heavy Tails
7. Statistical Mechanics: Probabilistic Point of View and the Concept of "Temperature"
8. Long-Range Correlations
9. Phase Transitions: Critical Phenomena and First-Order Transitions
10. Transitions, Bifurcations and Precursors
11. The Renormalization Group
12. The Percolation Model
13. Rupture Models
14. Mechanisms for Power Laws
15. Self-Organized Criticality
16. Introduction to the Physics of Random Systems
17. Randomness and Long-Range Laplacian Interactions
UR  - http://openisbn.com/isbn/3540308822/
ER  -