History by Algorithms - AI and the Future of Historical Research

This book offers a first step towards getting machines to understand history in terms of analysing historical narratives. It uses computational intelligence and history texts as keys to ask different questions than have been asked about our human history so far.

The book is divided into three main parts. The first part discusses the mathematical language of history, the second part uses simple models to analyse historical laws written in mathematical language, and the third part discusses the impact of general Large Language Models (LLMs) on the study of history.

List of contents

Introduction.- Asymptotics in Digital Humanities.- Function Diagrams in Digital Humanities.- History of War.- History Through Clocks.- Networks and Macrohistory.- Networks Microhistory.- What Is a Computational Model for History.- History through the Core.- History after the Death of the Witnesses.- History while the Witnesses are Still Alive.- Propaganda in History.- Stochastic terrorism.- Historian Machine.- Information and History.- Machine Learning and History.- Representing Historical Information.- Fake History.

Summary

This book offers a first step towards getting machines to understand history in terms of analysing historical narratives. It uses computational intelligence and history texts as keys to ask different questions than have been asked about our human history so far.

The book is divided into three main parts. The first part discusses the mathematical language of history, the second part uses simple models to analyse historical laws written in mathematical language, and the third part discusses the impact of general Large Language Models (LLMs) on the study of history.

Product details

• Authors: Zvi Lotker
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 25.09.2025
• EAN: 9783031936265
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3193626-5
• No. of pages: 424
• Illustrations: XVI, 424 p. 117 illus., 112 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Miscellaneous; Künstliche Intelligenz, Artificial Intelligence, Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie, Sozialforschung und -statistik, Computerlinguistik und Korpuslinguistik, Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Computational Linguistics, anomaly detection, Theories of History, D-Dimensional Historical Narrative, Core-Periphery Revolutionary Fluid Model, Function Diagrams, Big-O Notation, Psycho History, Social Network Diagram, Lanchester’s Equations, Asymptotics in Digital Humanities, Big-Theta Notation