Examples of modeling, identification of the amount of asymmetric wavelet signal behavior of natural objects: the pulse of the electrocardiogram of a healthy person; natural drying samples meadow grass; mutual influence of forest cover and tilled territory; Crisis dynamics of the ruble and...

"Understanding why so many people across the world are so poor is one of the central intellectual challenges of our time. What explains a pattern of extreme destitution for billions combined with plutocratic levels of income for a tiny minority? This book offers a novel approach to addressing...

A theory of exceptional extreme events, characterized by their abnormal sizes compared with the rest of the distribution, is presented. Such outliers, called "dragon-kings'', have been reported in the distribution of financial drawdowns, city-size distributions (e.g., Paris in France and London...