A Primer on Complex Systems: With Applications to Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas

The purpose of this book is to illustrate the fundamental concepts of complexity and complex behavior and the best methods to characterize this behavior by means of their applications to some current research topics from within the fields of fusion, earth and solar plasmas. In this sense, it is a departure from the many books already available that discuss general features of complexity.


The book is divided in two parts. In the first part the most important properties and features of com...