War Games : A History of War on Paper.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (235 pages)
- The MIT Press Series .
- The MIT Press Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Battle of Numbers in the Middle Ages -- 2 Power Games in the Baroque Period -- 3 The State of the War Game -- 4 Historiography in Real Time -- 5 Higher Mathematics and Nomos of the Earth -- 6 From Formula Games to the Universal Machine -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
The convergence of military strategy and mathematics in war games, from medieval to modern times.
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War games--History. Games of strategy (Mathematics)--History.