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Mathematics and War

Mathematics and War. By: Jeremy Wright. A History. Mathematics and War have been linked through history. Archimedes was employed to create weapons to defend Syracuse. People have been employing math to make guns shoot straighter and farther. Math is used to create a fair draft system.

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Mathematics and War

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  1. Mathematics and War By: Jeremy Wright

  2. A History • Mathematics and War have been linked through history. • Archimedes was employed to create weapons to defend Syracuse. • People have been employing math to make guns shoot straighter and farther. • Math is used to create a fair draft system

  3. Math Today • Today, people are using math to find order in war. • Sean Gourley and a team has found a formula relating numbers of attacks to number of people killed so they can find the probability of an event that will kill x number of people. • Neil Johnson and his team have found a formula that predicts the number of days between attacks on troops in Afghanistan.

  4. Johnson’s Formula • An Example of Neil Johnson’s formula Tn = T1n-b. • Tnis the number of days between the nth attack and its successor. • T1 represents the days between the first and second attacks • n is the attack number

  5. Conclusion • Math is used in a variety of contexts when it comes to war. • With the new studies being done to understand attacks and casualties we can hopefully start to guard ourselves against attacks and lower the causalities.

  6. Sources • http://www.ted.com/talks/sean_gourley_on_the_mathematics_of_war.html • http://www.economist.com/node/18483411 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbD36u2Bn4Q

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