Mathematics and War

by Booss-Bavnbek, Bernhelm; Hoyrup, Jens; Booss, Bernhelm

• ISBN13: 9783764316341
• ISBN10: 3764316349
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Birkhauser

Summary

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
Bernheim Booß-Bavnbek, Jens Høyrup	1	(22)
I Perspectives from Mathematics
Military Work in Mathematics 1914-1945: An Attempt at an International Perspective
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze	23	(60)
The Brains behind the Enigma Code Breaking before the Second World War
Elisabeth Rakus-Andersson	83	(20)
On the Defence Work of AN. Kolmogorov during World War II
Albert N. Shiryaev	103	(5)
Improbable Warriors: Mathematicians Grace Hopper and Mina Rees in World War II
Kathleen Williams	108	(18)
New Mathematical Disciplines and Research in the Wake of World War II
Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen	126	(27)
Mathematics and War in Japan
Setsuo Fukutomi	153	(7)
Discovery of the Maximum Principle in Optimal Control
Revaz V. Gamkrelidze	160	(14)
Mickey Flies the Stealth
Philip J. Davis	174	(9)
II Perspectives from the Military
War Cannot Be Calculated
Svend Bergstein	183	(33)
Warfare Can Be Calculated
Svend Clausen	216	(23)
Duels of Systems and Forces
Helge Löfstedt	239	(18)
On Facts and Fiction of "Information Warfare"
Ute Bernhardt, Ingo Ruhmann	257	(25)
More or less Exposed Non-combatants and Civilian Objects under the Conditions of "Modern Warfare"
Elmar Schmahling	282	(17)
III Ethical Issues
Niels Bohr's Political Crusade during World War II
Finn Aaserud	299	(13)
The Military Use of Alan Turing
Andrew Hodges	312	(14)
The Mathematician K. Ogura and the "Greater East Asia War"
Tetu Makino	326	(10)
Working within the System
Wolf Göhring	336	(16)
Ethics and Military Research
Jesper Ryberg	352	(15)
IV Enlightenment Perspectives
Mathematical Thinking and International Law
Ib Martin Jamad	367	(23)
Calculated Security? Mathematical Modelling of Conflict and Cooperation
Jürgen Scheffran	390	(23)
List of Contributors	413