Sociophysics: A personal testimony

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 336, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 49-55

  Galam, Serge ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

History of sciences; Origins; Sociophysics

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RESEARCH; SOCIAL SCIENCES; STUDENTS;

HISTORY OF SCIENCES; ORIGINS; SOCIOPHYSICS;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 1442333650     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.01.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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