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Another kind of Definitions
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Michael Alexeevich Popov Dec 6, 2011.

Anthropology and a fundamental problem of computer science ( P vs NP problem )
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Michael Alexeevich Popov Dec 1, 2012.

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Michael Alexeevich Popov commented on Michael Alexeevich Popov's group The Unit for Quantum Digital Humanities
"D - Wave Two : New Quantum Machine  "A $15m computer that uses "quantum physics" effects to boost its speed is to be installed at a Nasa facility. It will be shared by Google, Nasa, and other scientists, providing access to a…"
May 17
Michael Alexeevich Popov commented on Michael Alexeevich Popov's group The Unit for Quantum Digital Humanities
"Anthropomatics New branch of future anthropology. Heuristic 2013 The term "Anthropomatics" was coined by a Karlsruhe informatics professor ten years ago as the science of symbiosis between human and humanoid and refers to a research…"
May 10
Michael Alexeevich Popov commented on Michael Alexeevich Popov's group Virtual Laboratory of Quantum and Computational Anthropology
"  New social media, new social science?   Final Conference,Royal Statistical Society ,16th April 2013           Quantum Cryptography and Big Data Analytics My Poster I gave poster + informal talk  about my…"
Apr 17
John McCreery commented on Michael Alexeevich Popov's blog post Mathematical tradition in Anthropology. An Introduction 1. Edmund R.Leach
"Here is something a bit more serious, courtesy of Jacob Lee. "
Apr 11
Michael Alexeevich Popov commented on Michael Alexeevich Popov's blog post Mathematical tradition in Anthropology. An Introduction 1. Edmund R.Leach
"Thank You.It is a good joke. Indeed, "Anthropology is the science of the sense of humour " ( Malinowski,1937)  "
Apr 8
John McCreery commented on Michael Alexeevich Popov's blog post Mathematical tradition in Anthropology. An Introduction 1. Edmund R.Leach
"Michael, you are making a moral argument—"have no right"—to a scientific discussion. I agree totally that there is no easy way to do math as mathematicians do. But, to my mind, that puts the onus on those who insist that…"
Apr 6
Michael Alexeevich Popov commented on Michael Alexeevich Popov's blog post Mathematical tradition in Anthropology. An Introduction 1. Edmund R.Leach
"John and M.Izabel, Let me to make some sort of generalization. 1a. Malinowski, Shirokogoroff, Levi-Strauss and Leach made their best to introduce scientific standard (of 1920-30s ) in anthropology. We cannot forget about it, we have no right to…"
Apr 6
John McCreery commented on Michael Alexeevich Popov's blog post Mathematical tradition in Anthropology. An Introduction 1. Edmund R.Leach
"I am also interested in what Michael is up to. I wish he would tell us more about it, instead of assuming that we know what he is talking about."
Apr 6
M Izabel commented on Michael Alexeevich Popov's blog post Mathematical tradition in Anthropology. An Introduction 1. Edmund R.Leach
"I won't call it enthusiasm.  I have partly given up on anthropology a long time ago.  My life now revolves around arts.   Culinary is my bread and butter; sculpture, my hobby that relieves stress; and creative writing, my…"
Apr 6
John McCreery commented on Michael Alexeevich Popov's blog post Mathematical tradition in Anthropology. An Introduction 1. Edmund R.Leach
"Michael, M, I admire your enthusiasm. I do wonder, however, what you are hoping to accomplish here?  Michael, why do you care about anthropology? As you have observed there are lots of people working in fields like computational sociology, big…"
Apr 6
M Izabel commented on Michael Alexeevich Popov's blog post Mathematical tradition in Anthropology. An Introduction 1. Edmund R.Leach
Apr 5
M Izabel commented on Michael Alexeevich Popov's blog post Mathematical tradition in Anthropology. An Introduction 1. Edmund R.Leach
"Yes, Michael, the mathematicalization of anthropology and sociology has been done already, but mostly representational (map, diagram, model) and metaphorical (analogy, one-to-one correspondence, substitution).  Can you direct me to some recent…"
Apr 5
Michael Alexeevich Popov commented on Michael Alexeevich Popov's blog post Mathematical tradition in Anthropology. An Introduction 1. Edmund R.Leach
"M Izabel and John, Current confusing litarary tradition of social anthropology is based on total simplification ( please, see -  Mark Moberg. Engaging anthropological theory.Routledge 2013  with zero knowledge on mathematical…"
Apr 5
M Izabel commented on Michael Alexeevich Popov's blog post Mathematical tradition in Anthropology. An Introduction 1. Edmund R.Leach
"This is a lot, John, and very interesting too. "Mathematics make strict assumptions and deduce their consequences."   There are non-deductive methods in mathematics such as computer and probability proofs.  Michael also…"
Apr 5
John McCreery commented on Michael Alexeevich Popov's blog post Mathematical tradition in Anthropology. An Introduction 1. Edmund R.Leach
"Michael, M, here we are three true believers that mathematics has something important to contribute to anthropology. We know that we face an uphill battle to persuade fellow anthropologists to believe as we do. I propose that we need to step back…"
Apr 5
M Izabel commented on Michael Alexeevich Popov's blog post Mathematical tradition in Anthropology. An Introduction 1. Edmund R.Leach
"As long as anthropology remains descriptive (not prescriptive), the application of mathematics will only be representational such as the use of set, group, category, and network theories as models for social and cultural realities.  Mathematics…"
Apr 4

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Mathematical tradition in Anthropology. An Introduction 1. Edmund R.Leach

 

Anthropologist sees the world  as a world of extreme complexity or as a series of Big Data ( NP hard ) problems , hence, some field complexities could be described as“ botanic rarities of the most exotic kind “ by literary forms , whereas another complexities are ready for scientific computational analysis.

As is known the first attempts to introduce systematic scientific analysis of culture as “ a set of mechanical devices “ ( Malinowski ) or  as a  sort of “computer…

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Posted on March 28, 2013 at 4:17pm — 20 Comments

Remark on History of Anthropology and Mathematics

 

This remark inspired by David Mills (Department of Education, University of Oxford) paper "After Malinowski..." ( Ethnicity seminar at ISCA 1.03.2013 ). David described Malinowski style of doing anthropological seminar at LSE with its interactive way of presentation, formalism,"raumkunst" and, of course, pub. It became puzzling for today's anthropologists because mathematical aspects of Malinowski functionalist thinking ( as well as Levi-Strauss algebraist thinking) are ignored…

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Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:30pm — 3 Comments

Is Science simply "Mission of western white men " ?

New Scientist (29 October 2011 Issue number 2836) contains comments on Anthropology 1 ( Postmodernism based cultural anthropology ). In particular author suggests that such sort of imaginary anthropology rejects an existence of objective truth as well as assumes that  "science was simply mission of western white men "? As a consequence - " A generation of journalists with a postmodern education decided that " objective" reporting was simply getting varying views of the story, but not required… Continue

Posted on November 1, 2011 at 1:58pm — 6 Comments

Two Anthropologies

There are two different anthropologies – anthropology by historians and anthropology by physicists and mathematicians. The first is academically recognized social science ,whereas , the second is just emerging discipline inspired by results of cosmology of antropic (anthropological ) principle, space life  sciences, computational theory of human limits, gravitational  and quantum biology, mathematical evolution, experimental econophysics, quantum games applications,applied mathematics and …

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Posted on June 29, 2011 at 2:30pm — 7 Comments

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