Statistics of Deadly Quarrels is a 1960 book by English mathematician and physicist Lewis Fry Richardson 11 October 1881 - 30 September 1953 published by Boxwood Press.
The book is a mathematical and social science study on the origins of war; topics that informed much of Richardson's research throughout his life.
"[8] Among the more positive takes, writing for Science in 1960, Paul Kecskemeti [hu] called it "monumental" and "an important landmark" in the quest to develop mathematical models encompassing complex social situations.
[9] Sociologist Philip C. Sagi in his 1961 review of the book for the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science called it a valuable addition to the sociology of conflict.
[1] The same year, an anonymous reviewer for the Journal of the American Statistical Association noted that the volumes "establish Richardson as an important precursor.... in the mathematical analysis of conflict".
[12] A year later, Ian Sutherland in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society praised the book as a "remarkable pioneering achievement in a field which many would have regarded as not amenable to mathematical treatment" and "a comprehensive and highly ingenious descriptive analysis of past wars".