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LIMITS OF MATHEMATICAL MODELING IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, THE: The Significance of Gödel's Incompleteness Phenomenon

By Francisco Antonio Doria (Editor)
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By Francisco Antonio Doria (Editor)
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Current mathematical models are notoriously unreliable in describing the time evolution of unexpected social phenomena, from financial crashes to revolution. Can such events be forecast? Can we compute probabilities about them? Can we model them? This book investigates and attempts to answer these questions through Gödel's two incompleteness theorems, and in doing so demonstrates how influential Gödel is in modern logical and mathematical thinking. Many mathematical models are applied to ec...

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