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A Mathematical Analysis of Crowds

Authors: Shreyak Chakraborty

Crowds are generally analyzed in the regime of sociology- where they are studied and classified on the basis of crowd psychology. This analysis arises from the study of collective behavior and treats crowds as dependent on psychology of humans in the crowd. In this introductory paper we show a generalized treatment of crowds as a set of living objects: called members of the crowd. We classify crowds based on various parameters and study some general and specific characteristics of crowd of humans and study the response of a simple crowd to an external situation or stimulus by deriving the solution of the generalized crowd equation. We also define some terminology regarding the mathematical description of crowds and hence arrive at some useful conjectures.

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[v1] 2014-03-14 21:51:47

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