The physical modelling of society: A historical perspective

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 314, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 1-14

  Ball, Philip ^a  

^a Nature   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gaussian; History of physics; Social science; Statistical mechanics; Statistics

Indexed keywords

KINETIC THEORY OF GASES; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

STATISTICAL INVARIANTS;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0036947118     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01042-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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