Mathematics and Society
“Look at social reality - and see mathematics!”
Gordon Burt
My work has different balances between mathematics and society:
pure mathematics; mathematics in different social disciplines; Values, World Society and Modelling; mathematical politics; specific topics; current projects and personal journeys.
Pure mathematics
Mathematics and modelling
overviews of chapters on modelling from the four books
Mathematics in different social disciplines
Mathematical social science
Burt, Gordon. Conflict, Complexity and Mathematical Social Science. Bingley: Emerald, 2010.
Humanities
Religion
[Education]
Values, World Society and Modelling
JPR Book Notes: https://www.prio.org/JPR/BookNotes/?x=1208
See also: https://sites.google.com/site/gordonburtmathsocsci/vwsm-yearbooks
Values
overviews of chapters on values from the four books
See also Religion and Humanities below.
World society and world history
overviews of chapters from the above books
Mathematical politics
The middle opinion
The Middle Opinion. Brexit 2019
The Middle Opinion. The English Empire. … Ireland, Scotland, Wales
… Chapters 9 to 18 of which contain a generic account of ‘the middle opinion’
Specific topics
The contagion of opinion
Herd behaviour in markets, polities, cultures and technologies
Population binary processes
Participation and Performance (abstract only)
Population flows of participation and performance (pages 173-179 in …)
Social reality
Specific complex social reality – a mathematical approach.
A foundational mathematical account of a specific complex social reality: Conflict in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Other topics
Football and Mathematics. Premier League and World Cup. 2018.
Current projects
The middle opinion
The Middle Opinion. Brexit 2019
The Middle Opinion. The English Empire. … Ireland, Scotland, Wales
… Chapters 9 to 18 of which contain a generic account of ‘the middle opinion’
Personal journeys