SOCIAL MATH®

A game-changing invention of the 21st Century

The Problem We Face Now

The 21st century is defined by runaway complexity: AI systems we don’t understand, global crises we can’t coordinate around, and social breakdown fueled by cognitive overload, narrative warfare, and emotional manipulation. Humanity is running on mental operating systems built for survival in tribes—not for navigating interdependent global systems shaped by algorithms, data, and abstract forces. As power shifts invisibly into feedback loops, network effects, and causal chains, our traditional ways of thinking—rooted in ideology, identity, and binary logic—can no longer track or shape reality. The result: increasing mental illness, political chaos, epistemic collapse, and loss of control over the systems we built.

Invention of the Social Math® Problem-solving Paradigm

The Social Math® framework is the missing cognitive upgrade: a universal logic system that maps the cause-and-effect dynamics behind perception, belief, behavior, and policy. It formalizes the basic arithmetic rules that govern our neural networks, social systems, and institutional outcomes—these rules operate unseen until we make them visible through this new Social Math® cognitive architecture. This isn’t about “doing math,” but about thinking with the logic behind it: pattern recognition, feedback, proportionality, and emergence. Like language, the Social Math® symbolic system is a universal medium—not of words, but of causal coherence and ethical design. It is to 21st-century cognition what the scientific method was to the Enlightenment.
Where Einstein revealed how the universe works, Social Math® cognitive architecture reveals how we think about it—and how our thoughts shape the systems we inhabit.

About the Inventor

Dr. Jared Lee Hanson is a pioneering systems thinker, educator, and organizational strategist best known for inventing the Social Math® paradigm—a groundbreaking cognitive framework that reveals the hidden arithmetic logic underpinning human decision-making, conflict, and institutional behavior. Dr. Hanson’s work emerged from a critical insight: that the tools we use to solve problems—especially in leadership and policy—are often mismatched to the nonlinear, feedback-driven nature of the systems we operate within. His Oxford thesis, Basic Social Math®, argued that we need a new problem-solving paradigm rooted in mathematical rigor to foster innovation in organizational leadership. Building on this foundation, his book, Foundations of Social Math®, identifies the root sense-making causes that create divided philosophical foundations in disciplines, applying mathematical principles to clarify fundamental relationships within complex systems.

Vision & Impact

Dr. Hanson envisions Social Math® cognitive infrastructure as a universal logic system that maps the cause-and-effect dynamics behind perception, belief, behavior, and policy. It enables individuals and institutions to visualize the structure of thought, test ideas against system feedback, and replace ideology with clarity. In his article, Illuminating the Path: Unlocking the Power of Arithmetic in Shaping Our World, he emphasizes that mathematics isn’t just about numbers; it’s the study of patterns that help us see structure within chaos, providing clarity in uncertainty.
Academic Background
  • Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) - Grenoble Ecole de Management
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Organizational Leadership - University of Oxford, Saïd Business School
  • Master’s in Teaching - SIT Graduate Institute at World Learning
  • Bachelor’s in English - Brigham Young University
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