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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1
Military Work in Mathematics 1914-1945: An Attempt at an International
Perspective 23
The Brains behind the Enigma Code Breaking before the Second World War
83
On the Defence Work of A. N. Kolmogorov during World War II 103
Improbable Warriors: Mathematicians Grace Hopper and Mina Rees in World
War II 108
New Mathematical Disciplines and Research in the Wake of World War II
126
Mathematics and War in Japan 153
Discovery of the Maximum Principle in Optimal Control 160
Mickey Flies the Stealth 174
War Cannot Be Calculated 183
Warfare Can Be Calculated 216
Duels of Systems and Forces 239
On Facts and Fiction of "Information Warfare" 257
More or Less Exposed Non-combatants and Civilian Objects under the
Conditions of "Modern Warfare" 282
Niels Bohr's Political Crusade during World War II 299
The Military Use of Alan Turing 312
The Mathematician K. Ogura and the "Greater East Asia War" 326
Working within the System 336
Ethics and Military Research 352
Mathematical Thinking and International Law 367
Calculated Security? Mathematical Modelling of Conflict and Cooperation
390
List of Contributors 413

Product Details

* ISBN: 3764316349
* ISBN-13: 9783764316341
* Format: Paperback, 416pp
* Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag
* Pub. Date: November 2003

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