The Role and Significance of Objective (Mathematical) Methods in Geographic Research |
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Authors: | L. Ye. Smirnov |
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Affiliation: | Leningrad University |
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Abstract: | A staff member of Leningrad University's Cartography Department reviews the introduction of quantitative methods into geography and offers a classification of physical and mathematical models used in geography. The increasing use of objective methods, including physical and chemical techniques, is expected inevitably to affect the nature of geography as a scientific discipline, just as the use of aerial photography changed the theory and practice of topographic mapping. |
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