Handbook of Mathematical Geosciences : Fifty Years of IAMG This Open Access handbook published at the IAMGs 50th anniversary presents a compilation of invited path breaking research contributions by award winning geoscientists who have been instrumental in shaping the IAMG. It contains 45 chapters that are categorized broadly into five parts (i) theory (ii) general applications (iii) exploration and resource estimation (iv) reviews and (v) reminiscences covering related topics like mathematical geosciences mathematical morphology geostatistics fractals and multifractals spatial statistics multipoint geostatistics compositional data analysis informatics geocomputation numerical methods and chaos theory in the geosciences