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patterns to try to understand past human behavior and to carbon-date
artifacts.
7. In Social Sciences, mathematical models in economics, sociology,
psychology and linguistics are necessary tools to understand societal
dynamics. Social scientists use calculus, probability, game theory, and network
theory to understand social phenomena.
8. In Economics, mathematical concepts such as matrices, probability
and statistics are used to generate models that try to capture present or future
economic status of a country. Models such as stochastic or deterministic, linear
or non-linear, static or dynamic, continuous or discrete are derived.
Constructing such models requires knowledge on algebraic, differential and
integral equations in order to derive these models.
9. In music and arts, the rhythm that is found in all music notes is the result
of permutations and combinations. Music theorists apply set theory, abstract
algebra, and number theory to understand a musical structure.
