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- Wide pedagogical overview of scaling concepts, techniques and applications
- Gathers fields which are not present together in other textbooks
- Foreword by noble laureate Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Critical phenomena
- Critical phenomena in materials growth
- Critical phenomena in natural sciences
- Fractal geometry
- Growth mechanisms of materials
- Phase transitions
- Scale invariance in biology
- Scaling concepts in material physics
- Scaling concepts in pyhsics/biology
- Self-organized critical phenomena
- Universality and scale invariance
- complexity
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“The book begins with an introduction to scale invariance in the context of critical behaviors. … In addition to the high quality of its numerous diagrams and plots and the admirable readability of its equations and fonts, Scale Invariance is well written and surprisingly engaging. … The authors also do an excellent job of including the history of the topics they present; they make wise decisions about when to include significant historical details … . The diligent reader will benefit from Scale Invariance … .” (John R. Saylor, Physics Today, November, 2012)Authors and Affiliations
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Labo. Physique Théorique de la, Matière Condensée (LPTMC), Université Paris VI, Paris CX 05, France
Annick Lesne
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ESPCI, Paris, France
Michel Lagües
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Scale Invariance
Book Subtitle: From Phase Transitions to Turbulence
Authors: Annick Lesne, Michel Lagües
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15123-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-15122-4Published: 04 November 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44896-6Published: 26 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-15123-1Published: 04 November 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 400
Additional Information: Originally published by Editions Belin, Paris, 2008
Topics: Condensed Matter Physics, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Complexity, Structural Materials, Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics