Book description
F.W. Lanchester famously reduced the mutual erosion of attrition warfare to simple mathematical form, resulting in his famous "Square Law," and also the "Linear Law." Followers have sought to fit real-world data to Lanchester's equations, and/or to elaborate them in order to capture more aspects of reality.In Beyond Lanchester, Brian…
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This is a short (about 100 pages) and relatively new (2020) book showing how mathematical modeling of the dynamics of populations can be used to give new insights to the classic experiments by the scientist Georgy Gause on predation by one kind of single-celled organism called Didinium on another single celled organism Paramecium (which may sound familiar from high school biology), where the populations are the numbers of the two species and to the outcomes of classical military battles like Trafalgar, where the populations are the sizes of the forces of each side.
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