When Things Grow Many Complexity Universality and Emergence in Nature
An accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to the applications of statistical mechanics across the sciences. The book contains a discussion of the methods of statistical physics and includes mathematical explanations alongside guidance to enable the reader to translate theory into practice.
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This textbook introduces statistical mechanics for a wider audience (advanced undergraduate students and graduate students) including those who are not directly involved in traditional physics. Statistical mechanics is useful in many areas of science, both where the subject developed, such as chemistry, as well as more recent applications in biological and financial, linguistic, social and other fields. The book includes discussions of complexity, emergence, universality, self-organized criticality, power laws, and other timely topics.
