Constantino Tsallis

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Constantino Tsallis is a Brazilian physicist best known for formulating nonextensive statistical mechanics and introducing the generalized entropy concept that bears his name.

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instanceOf Brazilian person
physicist
theoretical physicist
university teacher
areaOfInfluence statistical description of multifractal systems
statistical description of systems with long-range interactions
statistical description of systems with long-term memory
countryOfCitizenship Brazil
employer Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
Santa Fe Institute
familyName Tsallis
fieldOfWork complex systems
nonextensive statistical mechanics
statistical mechanics
statistical physics
thermodynamics
givenName Constantin
surface form: Constantino
hasAcademicDiscipline complex systems science
physics
statistical mechanics
hasConceptNamedAfter Tsallis entropy
Tsallis entropy
surface form: Tsallis statistics
hasHonor recognition in the field of statistical mechanics
hasWork applications of nonextensive statistics in complex systems
applications of nonextensive statistics in physics
papers on Tsallis entropy
papers on nonextensive statistical mechanics
influenced development of nonextensive thermostatistics
knownFor Tsallis entropy
generalized entropy
nonextensive statistical mechanics
languageOfWorkOrName English
Portuguese
name Constantino Tsallis self-link
notableConcept Tsallis
surface form: Tsallis statistics

Tsallis entropy
surface form: q-Gaussian distribution

q-exponential distribution
placeOfBirth Greece
positionHeld external professor at Santa Fe Institute
researcher at Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
researchInterest applications of nonextensive statistics beyond physics
foundations of statistical mechanics
generalized entropic forms

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Tsallis entropy introducedBy Constantino Tsallis
Constantino Tsallis name Constantino Tsallis self-link
Tsallis entropy namedAfter Constantino Tsallis