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2012 CBMS-NSF Conference: Mathematics of the Social and Behavioral SciencesMonth: August 2012 Date: August 13--17 Name: 2012 CBMS-NSF Conference: Mathematics of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Location: West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania. LecturerDonald G. Saari. DescriptionEmerging areas of mathematical interest are coming from the social and behavioral sciences. What makes these concerns, which are motivated by issues in economics, sociology, political science, and psychology, of particular mathematical interest is that many standard mathematical tools were developed in response to questions from the physical and engineering sciences, which means that often they are not appropriate to analyze concerns from the social and behavioral sciences. The precision of differential equations, for instance, can lead to misleading conclusions for the qualitative types of issues that arise in the social sciences; many questions about aggregation rules, such as voting rules and price models in economics, have not been answered. In other words, to make advances in the mathematical social and behavioral sciences, there is a need to develop different forms of mathematical approaches. The theme of this series is to introduce and describe a portion of them. Information |
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