This almanac initiates a series of edite volumes dedicated to various aspects of the applicatin of mathematical methods to the study of history and society. It comprises articles that apply mathematical methods to the study o various epochs and scales: from deep historical reconstruction to the pressing problems of the modern world.
On the other hand, all the articles of this almanac are dedicated to the analysis, periodization, or modeling of global development. It is shown that the mathematical modeling of historical macroprocesses suggests a fresh approach to the periodization issue. The authors study these problems form differente perspectives (technological, economic, demographic, sociostructural, cultural-psychological, linguistic). New quantitative insights on the dynamics of contemporary processes are presented. These insights allow the authors to make a number of important forecasts on this basis.
*Periodization of History: A theoretic-mathematical analysis
*The World System History Periodization and Mathematical Models of Socio-Historical Processes
*Global Terrorism and World Political Cycles
*Violence and Non-Violece at Different Stages of World History: A view from the hypothesis of techno-humanitarian balance
*The Use of Cross-Cultural Research Methodology in the Study of Deep History
*Language and Mathematics: An evolutionary model of grammatical communication
*List of Contributors