Lewis Fry Richardson: His Intellectual Legacy and Influence in the Social Sciences
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2020, 2020
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020 |
| Series: | Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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