Will the noble (and sometimes snobbish) queen of sciences mathematics have a role in the future study of economics? Will the role it plays (if any) be as crucial as in the physical sciences? We argue that mathematics will very likely have a pivotal beneficial mutual exchange with economics, particularly through the study of statistical mechanical models of complex systems.
ERCIM News 78, pages 36-37, July 2009.
Special theme: Mathematics for Finance and Economy
Author = {Contucci, Pierluigi and Romiti, Francesca},
Note = {Special theme: Mathematics for Finance and Economy},
Title = {Mathematics for Economics: A Statistical Mechanics Perspective},