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001404426 1001_ $$aHilgers, Philipp von.
001404426 24010 $$aKriegsspiele.$$lEnglish
001404426 24510 $$aWar games :$$ba history of war on paper /$$cPhilipp von Hilgers ; translated by Ross Benjamin.
001404426 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bMIT Press,$$c2012.
001404426 300__ $$a1 online resource (xii, 220 pages :$$billustrations
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001404426 520__ $$aThe convergence of military strategy and mathematics in war games, from medieval to modern times.For centuries, both mathematical and military thinkers have used game-like scenarios to test their visions of mastering a complex world through symbolic operations. By the end of World War I, mathematical and military discourse in Germany simultaneously discovered the game as a productive concept. Mathematics and military strategy converged in World War II when mathematicians designed fields of operation. In this book, Philipp von Hilgers examines the theory and practice of war games through history, from the medieval game boards, captured on parchment, to the paper map exercises of the Third Reich. Von Hilgers considers how and why war games came to exist: why mathematical and military thinkers created simulations of one of the most unpredictable human activities on earth.Von Hilgers begins with the medieval rythmomachia, or Battle of Numbers, then reconstructs the ideas about war and games in the baroque period. He investigates the role of George Leopold von Reiswitz's tactical war game in nineteenth-century Prussia and describes the artifact itself: a game board-topped table with drawers for game implements. He explains Clausewitz's emphasis on the "fog of war" and the accompanying element of incalculability, examines the contributions of such thinkers as Clausewitz, Leibniz, Wittgenstein, and von Neumann, and investigates the war games of the German military between the two World Wars. Baudrillard declared this to be the age of simulacra; war games stand contrariwise as simulations that have not been subsumed in absolute virtuality.
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001404426 650_0 $$aGames of strategy (Mathematics)$$xHistory.
001404426 653__ $$aSCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology
001404426 653__ $$aSOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies
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