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The Kolmogorov Legacy in Physics

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 636)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Kolmogorov Pathways from Integrability to Chaos and Beyond

    • Roberto Livi, Stefano Ruffo, Dima Shepelyansky
    Pages 3-32
  3. From Regular to Chaotic Motions through the Work of Kolmogorov

    • Alessandra Celletti, Claude Froeschlé, Elena Lega
    Pages 33-59
  4. Dynamics at the Border of Chaos and Order

    • Michael Zaks, Arkady Pikovsky
    Pages 61-82
  5. Kolmogorov’s Legacy about Entropy, Chaos, and Complexity

    • Massimo Falcioni, Vittorio Loreto, Angelo Vulpiani
    Pages 85-108
  6. Complexity and Intelligence

    • Giorgio Parisi
    Pages 109-121
  7. Information Complexity and Biology

    • Franco Bagnoli, Franco A. Bignone, Fabio Cecconi, Antonio Politi
    Pages 123-146
  8. Fully Developed Turbulence

    • Luca Biferale, Guido Boffetta, Bernard Castaing
    Pages 149-172
  9. Turbulence and Stochastic Processes

    • Antonio Celani, Andrea Mazzino, Alain Pumir
    Pages 173-186
  10. Reaction-Diffusion Systems: Front Propagation and Spatial Structures

    • Massimo Cencini, Cristobal Lopez, Davide Vergni
    Pages 187-210
  11. Financial Time Series: From Batchelier’s Random Walks to Multifractal ‘Cascades’

    • Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Jean-François Muzy
    Pages 229-246
  12. Back Matter

About this book

The present volume, published at the occasion of his 100th birthday anniversary, is a collection of articles that reviews the impact of Kolomogorov's work in the physical sciences and provides an introduction to the modern developments that have been triggered in this way to encompass recent applications in biology, chemistry, information sciences and finance. This book addresses scientists and postgraduate students in applied mathematics and theoretical physics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universitá di Firenze Dipartimento di Fisica Via Sansone 1 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

    Roberto Livi

  • Universitá di Roma ‘La Sapienza’ Dipartimento di Fisica Piazzale A. Moro 2 00185, Roma, Italy

    Angelo Vulpiani

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