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Taking an interest in the future is among the most instinctive of human activities. Conscious of the existence of time as well as space, man has always tried to guess what the future holds. Until recently scholars have left the field of speculation to the pseudosciences of astrology and palmistry or to the ambiguities of the oracles. Imaginative writers have made some brilliant contributions, but the development of mathematical modelling and other predictive techniques are relatively recent arrivals.
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Bisogno, P., Forti, A. (1973). Introduction. In: Hawkes, N. (eds) International Seminar on Trends in Mathematical Modelling. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 80. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80733-6_1
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