Mathematics and War

Name: Mathematics and War
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ISBN: 9783764316341

ISBN-10: 3764316349

ISBN-13: 9783764316341

Edition: 2003

Authors: Bernhelm Booï¿½-Bavnbek, Jens Hï¿½yrup

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Mathematics has for centuries been stimulated, financed and credited by military purposes. Some mathematical thoughts and mathematical technology have also been vital in war. During World War II mathematical work by the Anti-Hitler coalition was part of an aspiration to serve humanity and not help destroy it. At present, it is not an easy task to view the bellicose potentials of mathematics in a proper perspective.The book presents historical evidence and recent changes in the interaction between mathematics and the military. It discusses the new mathematically enhanced development of military technology which seems to have changed the very character of modern warfare.

Book details

List price: $119.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Springer Basel AG
Publication date: 9/25/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 420
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.61" long x 3.73" tall
Weight: 3.586
Language: English



Introduction



Military Work in Mathematics 1914-1945: An Attempt at an International Perspective



The Brains behind the Enigma Code Breaking before the Second World War



On the Defence Work of A. N. Kolmogorov during World War II



Improbable Warriors: Mathematicians Grace Hopper and Mina Rees in World War II



New Mathematical Disciplines and Research in the Wake of World War II



Mathematics and War in Japan



Discovery of the Maximum Principle in Optimal Control



Mickey Flies the Stealth



War Cannot Be Calculated



Warfare Can Be Calculated



Duels of Systems and Forces



On Facts and Fiction of "Information Warfare"



More or Less Exposed Non-combatants and Civilian Objects under the Conditions of "Modern Warfare"



Niels Bohr's Political Crusade during World War II



The Military Use of Alan Turing



The Mathematician K. Ogura and the "Greater East Asia War"



Working within the System



Ethics and Military Research



Mathematical Thinking and International Law



Calculated Security? Mathematical Modelling of Conflict and Cooperation



List of Contributors