Tolstoy's Mathematics in ``War and Peace''

Paul Vitányi

CWI, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
paulv@cwi.nl
http://www.cwi.nl/~paulv/

Abstract

The nineteenth century Russian author Leo Tolstoy based his egalitarian views on sociology and history on the then newfangled statistical physics and also proposed a mathematical theory of waging war.

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