1. Book Announcements.
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MATHEMATICS ,PSYCHOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences ,PHILOSOPHY ,SYSTEMS theory ,MATHEMATICAL economics - Abstract
The article presents information on several books. Some of the books are "Problems of Historical Psychology," by Zevedie Barbu and "Developments in Mathematical Psychology. The book consists of studies of three mathematical formulations that have proved of interest to psychologists during the past fifteen jean: Information theory, in which an attempt is made to characterize certain summary properties of time invariant choices; Mathematical learning theories, in which the goal is to describe the systematic changes of choices that result from environmental responses to them; Quasi-linear theories of tracking, in which a person who is trying to follow closely a continuously moving target is treated as a slightly noisy linear system. The author delineate the problem areas being treated and Introduce the basic mathematical ideas used, cite some of the major mathematical results, and survey and criticize the more important papers in which the theories are confronted with experimental data. Another book is "Industrial Productivity and Motivation."
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- 1961