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Conflict, Complexity and Mathematical Social Science.

This book provides a foundational mathematical approach to the modelling of social conflict. Unique in its multidisciplinary focus it is a vital resource for all researchers in peace science, peace and conflict studies, politics, international relations, mathematical modelling in the social sciences...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burt, Gordon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bradford : Emerald Group Pub., 2010.
Colección:Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, 15.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front cover; Conflict, Complexity and Mathematical Social Science; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction and overview; Chapter 2. Set theory and social reality; Chapter 3. Mathematics, logic, artificial intelligence and ordinary language; Chapter 4. Possibility and probability: Value, conflict and choice; Chapter 5. Theory, evidence and reality: The mean and median ideals of competing groups; Chapter 6. Social design, ethics and the amount of value; Chapter 7. Change, multiple-entity systems and complexity; Chapter 8. Mathematical psychology.
  • Chapter 9. Models of individual choiceChapter 10. Mathematical sociology; Chapter 11. Mathematical political science and game theory; Chapter 12. The mathematical economics of social participation; complexity; Chapter 13. Life and history: The speculative pursuit of value; Chapter 14. World history: The growth and distribution dynamics of power, truth and value; Chapter 15. Debating the mathematical science approach to intern.