| #4072962 in Books | Helbing Dirk | 2010-11-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.81 x6.14l,1.45 | File type: PDF | 333 pages | Quantitative Sociodynamics Stochastic Methods and Models of Social Interaction Processes||0 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Timely, given the increase in Internet social networking...|By certreview|This book seems timely given the increase in people using the Internet for social networking. Though, I wouldn't be predisposed to use it due to the fact I'm not in the Social Sciences or Natural Sciences.|||From the reviews:“This ambitious volume aims to provide a comprehensive account of mathematical methods for the quantitative study of social processes, with a focus on stochastic methods. … To summarise, as an introduction to such mathematics, it
When I wrote the book Quantitative Sociodynamics, it was an early attempt to make methods from statistical physics and complex systems theory fruitful for the modeling and understanding of social phenomena. Unfortunately, the ?rst edition appeared at a quite prohibitive price. This was one reason to make these chapters available again by a new edition. The other reason is that, in the meantime, many of the methods discussed in this book are more and more used in a variet...
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