Scientists often re-invent things that were long known. Here we review these activities as
related to the mechanism of producing power law distributions, originally proposed in 1922 …

The exponential growth of the World-Wide Web has transformed it into an ecology of
knowledge in which highly diverse information is linked in an extremely complex and …

The domain of validity of standard thermodynamics and Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical
mechanics is discussed and then formally enlarged in order to hopefully cover a variety of …

Nonextensive statistical mechanics is now a rapidly growing field and a new stream in the
research of the foundations of statistical mechanics. This generalization of the well-known …

An understanding of language as a complex system helps us to think differently about
linguistics, and helps us to address the impact of linguistic interaction. This book …

Many man made and naturally occurring phenomena, including city sizes, incomes, word
frequencies, and earthquake magnitudes, are distributed according to a power-law …

The domain of validity of standard thermodynamics and Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical
mechanics is focused on along a historical perspective. It is then formally enlarged in order …

This insightful study proposes a unified theory of speech through which conflicting ideas
about language might be understood. It is founded on a number of key points, such as the …

Zipf's law is just one out of many universal laws proposed to describe statistical regularities
in language. Here we review and critically discuss how these laws can be statistically …

A curious observation was made that the rank statistics of scientific citation numbers follows
Zipf-Mandelbrot's law. The same pow-like behavior is exhibited by some simple random …