Equations of war
by phill
This is why
I loved physics during my undergrad. A video popped up in my TED Talks feed today entitled, ‘The Mathematics of War’. You can watch the video here, and I recommend you do. It’s a very interesting talk if you’re into this kind of thing. It immediately reminded me of my flash fiction story ‘War Games‘ in that it describes the correlation of something as seemingly chaotic as an international conflict. It’s this kind of thinking that makes me appreciate rational thought and all that it can accomplish. Sure, it’s a bit of a stretch to jump from the aggregation of news sources and statistics (the phrase ‘citation needed’ springs to mind) to modelling the cohesion of insurgent forces, but every talk like this needs to be taken with the pinch of salt necessary to be actually be a TED talk. But what I really loved was the fact that at the start of the project he describes, someone must have daydreamed the idea of describing war in mathematical terms. I love the idea of that creative spark.
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