War games a history of war on paper
For centuries, both mathematical and military thinkers have used game-like scenarios to test their visions of mastering a complex world through symbolic operations. By the end of World War I, mathematical and military discourse in Germany simultaneously discovered the game as a productive concept. M...
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Cambridge, Mass.
MIT Press
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- The battle of numbers in the middle ages
- Power games in the Baroque period
- The state of the war game
- Historiography in real time
- Higher mathematics and Nomos of the Earth
- From formula games to the universal machine.