``Principles of mechanics that are susceptible of application to society: an unpublished notebook of Adolphe Quetelet at the root of his social physics

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2014.01.001zbMath1286.01014OpenAlexW2049467532MaRDI QIDQ2447813

David Aubin

Publication date: 29 April 2014

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2014.01.001

zbMATH Keywords

mechanicsastronomysociologysocial physicsAdolphe Queteletanalogical thinkingapplications of mathematicsaverage man

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of game theory, economics, and finance (91-03) History of mechanics of particles and systems (70-03)

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