scholarly journals News From the Departments

1958 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-148
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Probability Theory ◽  
Group Theory ◽  
Guest Speaker ◽  
Mathematics Students ◽  
New Developments ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
The Social ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
Mathematics And Physics

University of Alberta: Professor J.G. Kemeny spent four days here, March 12 to 15, as a visiting lecturer for the Mathematical Association of America. He gave two colloquium talks on "Markov chains in probability theory" and public lectures on "New developments in the teaching of mathematics" and on "Mathematics in the Social Sciences". He was guest speaker at a dinner meeting of the Mathematics and Physics club, at which he gave a delightful popular talk on the way group theory might have originated, and he also addressed several groups of mathematics students. His visit was greatly appreciated.

Soviet Politics and the Group Approach: A Conceptual Note

Slavic Review ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Langsam ◽  
David W. Paul
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Group Theory ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
The United States ◽  
Soviet System ◽  
Group Approach ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Social

One of the “Great Debates” among Soviet specialists in the social sciences today concerns the applicability of interest group theory to the study of Soviet politics. Though a large number of specialists have accepted the notion that interest groups do indeed play a certain kind of role in the Soviet system, there are still those who hold to the opinion, once taken for granted but in recent years challenged, that interest group theory simply does not apply to the Soviet Union. The strength of the latter argument lies in the fact that in the USSR interest groups do not operate publicly and openly, as they do in the United States; therefore, interest group theory as developed to fit the American context cannot describe or explain the dynamic processes of policymaking in Russia.

scholarly journals Playing the game with aleatorics and narrativity: Linaia-Agon by Iannis Xenakis

New Sound ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 109-130
Author(s):  
Jelena Janković-Beguš
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Game Theory ◽  
Probability Theory ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
The West ◽  
Iannis Xenakis ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Mathematical Game ◽  
The Social

In this article I examine the piece Linaia-Agon for brass trio (1972) by Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis, one of only three pieces by this composer, which are commonly referred to in literature as "game-pieces", from the perspective of Roger Caillois' typology of games, stemming from the social sciences, as well as from the framework of the mathematical game theory and its branch probability theory. Xenakis' "game pieces" belong to the field of controlled aleatorics, because they employ a certain level of indeterminacy; here I argue that it is precisely in this aspect of indeterminacy that their nature "as games" is revealed. I am concerned with the "translation" of the Ancient Greek legend about the musician Linos and the God Apollo - and of the mathematical calculations - into the language of the West European avant-garde music of the second half of the 20th century.

scholarly journals Are we becoming gadgets? Social capital in the era of social networking

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark K. Ingle
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Social

Social capital is partially predicated on the levels of trust obtaining between institutions and between members of society. As such it is a vital ingredient in the ‘glue’ which holds society together and which facilitates contractual economic activity. Recent technological advances, and the concomitant ascendancy of social networking, have radically reconfigured the environment in which social capital is generated, and the social sciences have some way to go fully to digest these new developments. This article surveys the meteoric rise of the ‘technium’ in the social imaginary and delineates some of the reservations current commentators have about the next ‘singularity’ to succeed the Internet. The discussion includes a brief account of the philosophy behind the objectification of the human. It also speculates about the consequences of paradigm shifts in modes of relating for the formation of social capital in the future.

ACTIVE WALKS: THE FIRST TWELVE YEARS (PART I)

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (08) ◽  
pp. 2317-2348 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUI LAM
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Pattern Formation ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Human History ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Physical Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Basic Concepts

Active walk is a paradigm for self-organization and pattern formation in simple and complex systems, originated by Lam in 1992. In an active walk, the walker (an agent) changes the deformable landscape as it walks and is influenced by the changed landscape in choosing its next step. Active walk models have been applied successfully to various biological, chemical and physical systems from the natural sciences, and to economics and many other systems from the social sciences. More recently, it has been used to model human history. In this review, the history, basic concepts, formulation, theories, applications, new developments and open problems of active walk are summarized and discussed. New experimental, theoretical and computer modeling results are included.

scholarly journals Forbidden Zones for the Expectations of Data: New Mathematical Methods and Models for Behavioral Economics

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-26
Author(s):  
Alexander Harin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Mathematical Method ◽  
Probability Theory ◽  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Mathematical Description ◽  
Mathematical Methods ◽  
The Social

A forbidden zone theorem, hypothesis, and applied mathematical method and model are introduced in the present article. The method and model are based on the forbidden zones and hypothesis. The article is initiated by the well-known generic problems concerned with the mathematical description of the behavior of a man. The essence of the problems consists in biases of preferences and decisions of a man in comparison with predictions of the probability theory. The model is uniformly and successfully applied for different domains. The ultimate goal of the research is to solve some generic problems of behavioral economics, decision theories, and the social sciences.

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