Tolstoy's mathematics in ``War and peace

DOI10.1007/S00283-012-9342-8zbMATH Open1268.00015arXivmath/0110197OpenAlexW2037440030MaRDI QIDQ354147FDOQ354147

Authors: Paul M. B. Vitányi 

Publication date: 18 July 2013

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The nineteenth century Russian author Leo Tolstoy based his egalitarian views on sociology and history on mathematical and probabilistic views, and he also proposed a mathematical theory of waging war.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0110197

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and miscellaneous specific topics (00A99)

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