Econophysics
Subtitle: an introduction
By: Sitabhra Sinha ... [et al.].
Series: Physics textbook; Physics textbook
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Weinheim
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9783527408153
Subjects: Mathematical models; Economics; Finance; Statistical physics
Notes: Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The random walk; title: Beyond the simple random walk; title: Understanding interactions through cross-correlations; title: Why care about a power law?; title: The log-normal and extreme-value distributions; title: When a single distribution is not enough?; title: Explaining complex distributions with simple models; title: But individuals are not gas molecules; title: And individuals don't interact randomly : complex networks; title: Outlook and concluding thoughts; title: Appendix A : thermodynamics and free particle statistics; title: Appendix B : interacting systems : mean field models, fluctuations and scaling theories; title: Appendix C : renormalization group technique; title: Appendix D : spin glasses and optimization problems : annealing; title: Appendix E: nonequilibrium phenomena.