"Big-wave surfing has long been part of the sport, but with more watermen pushing the boundaries this subculture of the surf world is moving from the fringes to the fore. The current generation is continually reinventing the limits, making this the most advanced, dynamic, and exciting period in big-wave ...
Current mathematical models are notoriously unreliable in describing the time evolution of unexpected social phenomena, from financial crashes to revolution. Can such events be forecast? Can we compute probabilities about them? Can we model them? This book investigates and attempts to answer these questions ...