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Record Nr.

UNINA9910350223903321

Autore

dell'Isola Francesco

Titolo

Big-(Wo)men, Tyrants, Chiefs, Dictators, Emperors and Presidents [[electronic resource] ] :  Towards the Mathematical Understanding of Social Groups / / by Francesco dell'Isola

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

981-13-9479-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 pages)

Disciplina

301.10151

Soggetti

Science—Social aspects

Mathematics

Social sciences

Social sciences—Data processing

Social sciences—Computer programs

Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education

Popular Science in Mathematics

Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Computational Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1.A Dictator Must Always Exist -- 2.Arrow's Theorem is a Powerful Tool for Understanding Many Social Phenomena -- 3.Catherine the Great and Genghis Khan: Power has no Gender -- 4.Some Open Problems for a General Mathematical Theory of Social Structures -- 5.Phenomenology of Leadership -- 6.Phenomenology of Dictatorship.

Sommario/riassunto

This book highlights mathematical ideas to help explain a number of important aspects of the dynamics of social groups. These ideas are similar to those used to describe the behaviour of Lagrangian mechanical systems, and as such this book appeals to anyone wanting to gain an understanding of the intrinsic unity of natural phenomena.