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Peace mathematics – does it exist?
March 12th, 2012 | 
Author: By Johan Galtung
It does, even in print; pardon some publicity! You may start at the end with the table of contents, then, here is the book epilogue:
Epilogue: Enthusiast E and Skeptic S: Dialogue at a Higher Level
E: Well, where are we now? How do you feel?
S: A little exhausted. But greatly relieved at one major point.
E: Any particular chapter, branch, part of peace theory?
S: No, the whole thing. I worried that you would put something belonging to all of us, peace, into a big machine with parameters and then the machine would produce outputs about what to do. Like economists do with something belonging to us, our own livelihood. I liked your distinction between equations and formulas, between mathematics and mathematese.
E: Is your worry that reality is so complex that no set of equations can ever mirror it? Like linear equations being inadequate, non-linear equations being more promising? Read the rest of this entry »
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