Mathematics and Society

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
Humanities and mathematics

Religion
Religion and mathematics

[Education]

Values, World Society and Modelling

JPR Book Notes: https://www.prio.org/JPR/BookNotes/?x=1208
Burt, Gordon. Values, World Society and Modelling Yearbook, 2014. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2016.
Burt, Gordon. Values, World Society and Modelling Yearbook, 2015. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2017.
Burt, Gordon. Values, World Society and Modelling Yearbook, 2017. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2018.

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

The Middle Opinion. USA 2020.
… Chapters 9 to 18 of which contain a generic account of ‘the middle opinion’

UK politics; Ireland politics

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.