Tolstoy's Mathematics in "War and Peace"
History and Overview
2007-05-23 v1
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0110197,
title = {Tolstoy's Mathematics in "War and Peace"},
author = {Paul Vitanyi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0110197},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
LaTeX, 12 pages, Preliminary version appeared in a Liber Amicorum at the occasion of Johan van Benthem's fiftieth birthday