Eventology: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
imported>Daniel Mietchen (some further tweaking) |
imported>Hayford Peirce (who the hell knows what a "preprint" is? I *almost* put a link to his userspace for the original article, then didn't. what do you think?) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{subpages}} | {{subpages}} | ||
'''Eventology''' (literally | '''Eventology''' (literally "the study of events") is a term used from about 2000 onwards by Oleg Yu. Vorobyev, a mathematician at the [[Siberian Federal University]] in Russia, for his variant of [[probability theory]]. He claims the theory to be of "practical significance" both for "philosophical questions" and "economic, social and other questions in different applied fields" and to have "advanced to the foremost boundaries of natural sciences and human sciences." There is little evidence to support this claim, other than several papers by Vorobyev himself and coworkers. | ||
The term is also occasionally used outside mathematics to refer to the study of cultural and business events. | The term is also occasionally used outside mathematics to refer to the study of cultural and business events. | ||
Revision as of 23:00, 23 October 2009
Eventology (literally "the study of events") is a term used from about 2000 onwards by Oleg Yu. Vorobyev, a mathematician at the Siberian Federal University in Russia, for his variant of probability theory. He claims the theory to be of "practical significance" both for "philosophical questions" and "economic, social and other questions in different applied fields" and to have "advanced to the foremost boundaries of natural sciences and human sciences." There is little evidence to support this claim, other than several papers by Vorobyev himself and coworkers.
The term is also occasionally used outside mathematics to refer to the study of cultural and business events.