Nonextensive entropy

Many complex systems across the sciences follow power laws and display hierarchical or fractal organization. Researchers have often tried to model such systems with tools from thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, especially methods based on maximizing entropy. Where the familiar Boltzmann-Gibbs framework and its standard laws fit naturally, that approach works well.

This volume looks at how these ideas apply across different disciplines. It also explores a range of phenomena that might one day be described quantitatively using the same concepts.