In hmolscience, Margareta Ignat (c.1941-) (CR=5) is a Romanian physicist noted for her circa 2000 to present work in the field of econophysics and sociophysics in Romania, one of the first in the Romanian socioeconomic physics school; of interest is her emphasis on the application of thermodynamics to economics.
Socioeconomic physics
In 2001, Ignat penned the article “Econophysics: a New Field for Statistical Physics”, co-authored with Mircea Gligor; in 2003, Ignat was the doctorial advisor for Gligor’s 2003 PhD dissertation “Thermodynamics and Statistical Models for Dissipative Socio-Economic Systems”. [1]
Education
Ignat completed her PhD in 1968 with a dissertation on “Contributions to the theory of magnetohydrodynamic wave propagation and solving basic equations of magnetohydrodynamics linearized” under Mircea Draganu at "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca. In 1975, Ignat published Questions and Problems of Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics. Ignat presently is associated with Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania.
References
1. (a) Gligor, Mircea and Ignat, Margareta. (2001). “Econophysics: a New Field for Statistical Physics” (pdf), Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 26(4):1-8.
(b) Gligor, Mircea. (2003). “Thermodynamics and Statistical Models for Dissipative Socio-Economic Systems”, PhD thesis, advisor: Margareta Ignat.
(c) Savoiu, Gheorghe. (2012). Econophysics: Background and Applications in Economics, Finance, and Sociophysics (pg. 13). Academic Press.
Further reading
● Gligor Mircea and Ignat, Margareta. (2001). “Some Demographic Crashes Seen as Phase Transitions” (abs), Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 301:535-44.
● Gligor, Mircea and Ignat, Margareta. (2002). “A Kinetic Approach to Some Quasi-Linear Laws of Macroeconomics” (abs), European Physical Journal B, 30(10):125-35.
External links
● Ignat, Margareta – WorldCat Identities.
● Margareta Ignat – Microsoft Academic.
● Margareta Ignat – YouTube.
