Lewis Fry Richardson: His Intellectual Legacy and Influence in the Social Sciences
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-31591-7 (ISBN)
Lewis F Richardson occupied an important position in two academic fields as different as meteorology and peace research, with academic prizes awarded in both disciplines.
In peace research, he pioneered the use of mathematical models and the meticulous compilation of databases for empirical research.
As a quaker and pacifist, he refused to work in preparations for war, paid a heavy prize in terms of his career, and (at least in the social sciences) was fully recognized as a pioneering scholar only posthumously with the publication of two major books.
Lewis Fry Richardson is one of the 20th century's greatest but least appreciated thinkers-a creative physicist, psychologist, meteorologist, applied mathematician, historian, pacifist, statistician, and witty stylist. If you've heard of weather prediction, chaos,fractals, cliometrics, peace science, big data, thick tails, or black swans, then you have benefited from Richardson's prescience in bringing unruly phenomena into the ambit of scientific understanding. Richardson's ideas continue to be relevant today, and this collection is a superb retrospective on this brilliant and lovable man.
Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor, Harvard University, and the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now
Chapter 1. Lewis Fry Richardson - A Pioneer not Forgotten.- Chapter 2. Lewis Fry Richardson: A Personal Narrative.- Chapter 3. The Influence of the Richardson Arms Race Model.- Chapter 4. What Richardson Got Right (and Wrong) about Arms Races and War.- Chapter 5. Richardson and the Study of Dynamic Conflict Processes.- chapter 6. Back to the Future: Richardson's Multilateral Arms Race Model.- Chapter 7. From Hand-counting to GIS: Richardson in the Information Age.- Chapter 8. Weather, War, and Chaos: Richardson's Encounter with Molecules and Nations.- Chapter 9. When Lanchester met Richardson: The Interaction of Warfare with Psychology.- Chapter 10. On the Frequency and Severity of Interstate Wars.- Chapter 11. The Decline of War since 1950: New Evidence.- Appendix.
Erscheinungsdatum | 17.09.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice |
Zusatzinfo | VIII, 148 p. 31 illus., 17 illus. in color. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 250 g |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
Schlagworte | armed conflict • arms races • Boundaries • Conflict and contiguity • Mathematical Models • open access |
ISBN-10 | 3-030-31591-6 / 3030315916 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-31591-7 / 9783030315917 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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