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It's a maths conference! It's rock 'n' roll!
Over the past few months I've been co-writing a paper for the International Conference for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The paper is a combination of number theory (especially complex numbers,
percolation, criticality, fractal dimensions) and critical-functional social theory (the AGIL shema, uneven development, crises, system/lifworld distinction). It's all about the mathematical modelling of societies, their evolution and when they collapse due to internal contradictions and so forth. It uses (at least from my end) material from Talcott Parsons, Jeffrey Alexander and Jurgen Habermas.
I have just been told that a full-colour A0 poster has been made to advertise the paper. Previously I had been under the evident error that such posters are usually used for advertising recent tours by popular (or subcultural) musicians.
Oh well. As Pythagoras pointed out, even music consists of numbers. Tres rock-n-roll.
percolation, criticality, fractal dimensions) and critical-functional social theory (the AGIL shema, uneven development, crises, system/lifworld distinction). It's all about the mathematical modelling of societies, their evolution and when they collapse due to internal contradictions and so forth. It uses (at least from my end) material from Talcott Parsons, Jeffrey Alexander and Jurgen Habermas.
I have just been told that a full-colour A0 poster has been made to advertise the paper. Previously I had been under the evident error that such posters are usually used for advertising recent tours by popular (or subcultural) musicians.
Oh well. As Pythagoras pointed out, even music consists of numbers. Tres rock-n-roll.
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Mathematics is the root of all (or at least most) that is beautiful, IMHO :-)
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In mathematics the true, the good and the beautiful are one and the same. It's all about assigning the correct content to the correct sets and keeping the logic together.
And being "neat" in the process!