Matrices and Society: Matrix Algebra and Its Applications in the Social Sciences (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

Bradley, Ian; Meek, Ronald L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691638365 ISBN 13: 9780691638362

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Matrices offer some of the most powerful techniques in modem mathematics. In the social sciences they provide fresh insights into an astonishing variety of topics. Dominance matrices can show how power struggles in offices or committees develop; Markov chains predict how fast news or gossip will spread in a village; permutation matrices illuminate kinship structures in tribal societies. All these invaluable techniques and many more are explained clearly and simply in this wide-ranging book.

Originally published in 1986.

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About the Author

THE REV DR IAN CAMPBELL BRADLEY is the successful author of over 35 highly regarded books and is a well-known broadcaster, journalist and lecturer. He is also a Church of Scotland minister and a respected academic. He writes regularly for The Times and The Guardian and often appears on the BBC

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0691638365
• ISBN 13: 9780691638362
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240