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.
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
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.
Other topics
Ethnicity
Gender
World War
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
The Middle Opinion. USA 2020.
… Chapters 9 to 18 of which contain a generic account of ‘the middle opinion’
Personal
journeys