Predicting The Collapse Of Society Using Mathematics
Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 12:20
in Mathematics & Economics
Was the fall of the Roman Empire or, as often predicted, the coming fall of the American Empire, numerically predictable? It is, according to research led by Sergey Gavrilets, associate director for scientific activities at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and a professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville published in Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History. read more