Universidad de La Frontera-Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Preface Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences Mathematics and mathematical models have a very large field of applications. There is no scientific field which is not based on quantities which raises the need to use somé sort of quantitative method. Socal sciences alsó offer many...

From Fibonacci Numbers to Symmetric Functions Trueman MacHenry York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J1P3 e-mail address: machenryQmathstat. yorku. ca (To the memory of my teacher. Max Dehn) Introduction In this essay we are interested in the not so well-known theory that...