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Tolstoy's Mathematics in "War and Peace"

arXiv:math/0110197

Abstract

The nineteenth century Russian author Leo Tolstoy based his egalitarian views on sociology and history on mathematical and probabilistic views, and he also proposed a mathematical theory of waging war.

LaTeX, 12 pages, Preliminary version appeared in a Liber Amicorum at the occasion of Johan van Benthem's fiftieth birthday

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