Inequality in the way nations consume energy has been lessening in recent years. An underlying thermodynamic process seems to be at work. The 18th century writer Adam Smith provided a workable ...

The 18th century writer Adam Smith provided a workable metaphor for the way society utilizes resources. In his book "The Wealth of Nations," he argued that even as individuals strive, through personal ...

Kaniadakis statistics represents a significant extension of classical statistical mechanics. At its core is the concept of a κ-deformation, which generalises the traditional Boltzmann–Gibbs framework ...

My previous letter to the editor (“Problems keep piling up in the U.S.,” Dec. 13) was edited for too many words, and what was printed is not the complete story. Here is where it left off and here is ...

In this paper we consider drift and entropy growth for symmetric finitary random walks on finitely generated groups. We construct examples of various intermediate asymptotics of the drift for such ...