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Book Review: Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds by Steven J....

Game theory models are ubiquitous in economics, common in political science, and increasingly used in psychology and sociology; in evolutionary […]

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Book Review: The World in the Model: How Economists Work and Think by Mary...

During the last two centuries, economic science has become a social science based on mathematical models in place of words. […]

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Book Review: The New Science of Cities by Michael Batty

In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as […]

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Book Review: How Numbers Rule the World: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in...

GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with […]

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Book Review: Beautiful Geometry by Eli Maor and Eugen Jost

How do art and mathematics cross over? Beautiful Geometry is an attractively designed coffee table book that has 51 short chapters, each […]

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Book Review: Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds by Steven J....

Game theory models are ubiquitous in economics, common in political science, and increasingly used in psychology and sociology; in evolutionary biology, they offer compelling explanations for...

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Book Review: The World in the Model: How Economists Work and Think by Mary...

During the last two centuries, economic science has become a social science based on mathematical models in place of words. In this book Mary S. Morgan approaches this change – both historically and...

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Book Review: The New Science of Cities by Michael Batty

In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. Drawing on the complexity sciences,...

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Book Review: How Numbers Rule the World: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in...

GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind...

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Book Review: Beautiful Geometry by Eli Maor and Eugen Jost

How do art and mathematics cross over? Beautiful Geometry is an attractively designed coffee table book that has 51 short chapters, each consisting of an essay by the mathematical historian Eli Maor on...

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