Название: Mathematics and War
Автор: Boob-Bavnbek B.
Издательство: Birkhäuser
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 420
Размер: 13 mb
Язык: английский
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.
Perspectives from Mathematics
Military Work in Mathematics 1914 –1945: An Attempt at an International Perspective (Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze)
The Brains behind the Enigma Code Breaking before the Second World War (Elisabeth Rakus-Andersson) .
On the Defence Work of A.N. Kolmogorov during World War II (Albert N. Shiryaev)
Improbable Warriors: Mathematicians Grace Hopper and Mina Rees in World War II (Kathleen Williams) .
New Mathematical Disciplines and Research in the Wake of World War II (Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen)
Mathematics and War in Japan (Setsuo Fukutomi)
Discovery of the Maximum Principle in Optimal Control (Revaz V. Gamkrelidze)
Mickey Flies the Stealth (Philip J. Davis)
Perspectives from the Military
War Cannot Be Calculated (Svend Bergstein)
Warfare Can Be Calculated (Svend Clausen)
Duels of Systems and Forces (Helge Löfstedt)
On Facts and Fiction of “Information Warfare” (Ute Bernhardt, Ingo Ruhmann)
More or Less Exposed Non-combatants and Civilian Objects under the Conditions of “Modern Warfare” (Elmar Schmähling)
Niels Bohr’s Political Crusade during World War II (Finn Aaserud)
The Military Use of Alan Turing (Andrew Hodges)
The Mathematician K. Ogura and the “Greater East Asia War” (Tetu Makino)
Working within the System (Wolf Göhring)
Ethics and Military Research (Jesper Ryberg)
Mathematical Thinking and International Law (Ib Martin Jarvad)
Calculated Security? Mathematical Modelling of Conflict and Cooperation (Jürgen Scheffran)
List of Contributors