Concepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as
uncorrelated, phenomena are being applied ever increasingly in the natural sciences …

Now in a greatly expanded second edition, this book relates fractals and chaos to a variety
of geological and geophysical applications and introduces the fundamental concepts of …

Almost 12 years have passed by since we wrote Chaos and Fractals. At the time we were
hoping that our approach of writing a book which would be both accessible without …

and acknowledgments Self-organized criticality is a new way of viewing nature. The basic
picture is one where nature is perpetually out of balance, but organized in a poised state-the …

The past two decades of research on chaos theory in geophysics has brought about a
significant shift in the way we view geophysical phenomena. Research on chaos theory in …

In this introductory text, Dr. Birdi demonstrates experimental methods and analyses of fractal
dimensions in natural processes. In addition to a general overview, he discusses in detail …

Self-organized criticality (SOC) has become a magic word in various scientific disciplines. In
the first ten years after Per Bak and his coworkers presented their seminal idea (Bak et al …

Applying fractal geometry to science is bringing about a breakthrough in our understanding
of complex systems in nature that show self-similar or self-affine features. Self-similar and …

This book provides a challenging and stimulating introduction to the contemporary topics of
complexity and criticality, and explores their common basis of scale invariance, a central …

This book differs from others on Chaos Theory in that it focuses on its applications for
understanding complex phenomena. The emphasis is on the interpretation of the equations …