Econophysics and Sociophysics Trends and Perspectives
Edited by Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Anirban Chakraborti, and Arnab Chatterjee
WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
Econophysics and Sociophysics Edited by Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Anirban Chakraborti, and Arnab Chatterjee
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Econophysics and Sociophysics Trends and Perspectives
Edited by Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Anirban Chakraborti, and Arnab Chatterjee
WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
The Editors Bikas K. Chakrabarti Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Division/ Centre for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700 064 India
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[email protected] Arnab Chatterjee Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Division/ Centre for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700 064 India
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