"In Going to Extremes, renowned legal scholar and best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein offers startling insights into why and when people gravitate toward extre

What makes the 21st century different from the 20th century? This century is the century of extremes -- political, economic, social, and global black-swan event

Written by a team of international experts, Extremes and Recurrence in Dynamical Systems presents a unique point of view on the mathematical theory of extremes

This book examines the fundamental mathematical and stochastic process techniques needed to study the behavior of extreme values of phenomena based on independe

It appears that we live in an age of disasters: the mighty Missis sippi and Missouri flood millions of acres, earthquakes hit Tokyo and California, airplanes cr