War Games: A History of War on Paper

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Index Abacus, 1–3, 5, 6–8, 146n11 Academy of Sciences, 18, 121–122 Adam, Walter, 60, 70 Adorno, Theodor, 101 Alberti, Leon Battista, 12 Algebra, 12–14, 42 Anti–aircraft predictor, 90 Anti–gunfire predictor, 90–91 Applicatory method calculus and, 97 French methodology and, 97 General War Academy and, 72, 75, 158n75 graphemes and, 102 historiography and, 72–75 mathematical education and, 96–97 strategy and, 72–75 A priori theory, 127 Ardennes offensive, 36 Arithmetic, 91 Baroque power games and, 13, 24 Battle of Numbers and, 2, 5–7, 10 Bergmann and, 146n11 Du-Bois Reymond and, 123 Frege and, 167n1–3 Hilbert and, 118, 137 programming languages and, 140 Zuse and, 140 Ars characteristica, 12, 15 Ars inveniendi, 12, 14–15, 29 Ars iudicandi, 12 Ars magna, 16 Artillery, 74 Cochenhausen and, 80 creeping barrage and, 105–109, 113, 164n32 efficiency and, 107–108 FEKA, 114 friendly fire and, 164n36 geodesy and, 95 heavy howitzer, 103–104 light field, 104 Pulkowski method and, 107, 164n33 shell trajectories and, 105, 107 tactics for, 104–114, 164n36, 165n57 trigonometry and, 94 war games and, 35, 49, 53 Wittgenstein and, 103 Alexander the Great, 64 Altenstein, Karl von Stein zum, 94 Altrock, Konstantin von, 33n3 Aristoteles, 13n13 Asilo, 4, 8 Aspern, 34–39 Assassination, 71, 83 Assault battalions, 106, 164n36 Astrolabe, 2 Astronomy, 20, 99, 126–127 Atomic bomb, 89–91 “Attempt at a Tactical Game Based on Chess” (Hellwig), 47 Auerstedt, 37, 96 200 Index August, Duke of BraunschweigL üneburg, 19–20, 28 Austria, 34, 37–39, 80 Austro-Hungarian Army, 103, 105, 116 Axioms formalism and, 21, 99, 114, 118–128, 136, 142–143, 168n111, 172n202 set theory and, 128–131, 142–143, 172n202 theorems and, 94, 129, 142, 167n103 Babbage, Charles, 93 Bacon, Francis, 99–100 Ballistics, 95–96, 104 Balzac, Honoré de, 35–36 Barbarossa, 9, 71, 157n70 Baroque power games arithmetic and, 13, 24 drawing and, 13–14 geometry and, 12–13, 15 King’s Game and, 19–28, 31 Leibniz’s graphemic strategies and, 14–19 play as knowledge and, 11, 27–30 reason and, 11 semiotics and, 11, 14–15, 28–30 sign systems and, 11, 28 spaces of play and, 11–14 Weickmann’s power game and, 19–27 Battle formations, 3, 16, 24, 43 Battle of Numbers, 133 abacus and, 1–3, 5–8 arithmetic and, 2, 5–7, 10 Asilo and, 4 Boethius and, 1–2 Borst and, 145n3, 146nn15,29 caracteres and, 7–8 formations of, 1–3 game board of, 2–4, 6, 8 game pieces and, 3 geometry and, 2–3, 5, 8 Germany and, 4 Hermann the Lame and, 2 implantation of mathematics in, 4–8 as novellae plantationes, 4–5 Rithmomachia and, 1–2, 145n3 semiotics of, x, 3, 5–10 Worms school quarrel and, 4–5 writing and, 4–5, 7–8 Baudrillard, Jean, XII, 62 Becker, Oskar, 121, 147n13, 167n104 Being, 30 Bell Telephone Laboratories, 89 Benjamin, Walter, 57 Bergmann, Werner, 146n11 Bergson, Henri, 133–134 Berlin Association for the Promotion of the Sciences, 29 Berlin University, 42, 79, 91–94, 98–99 Bernays, Paul, 121, 125 Bernoulli, Jakob, 28–29 Bismarck, Otto von, 73–74 Bletchley Park, 139–140 Blind spot, 124 Blind thinking, 14 Blitzkriegspiel, 79 Boethius, 1–2, 8 Bohemia, 34 Boineburg, Johann Christian von, 18 Bombes, 140 Borel, Émile, 142 Borst, Arno, 4, 145n3, 146nn15,29 Bourbaki, Nicolas, 174n214 Brandes, Georg, 55 Bredow, Ferdinand von, 68 Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan, 170n166, 172n202 formalism and, 118–119, 121, 124, 127–132, 135 Hilbert and, 129, 166n89, 168nn32,121 Leibniz and, 127 mentors of, 168n132 metalanguage and, 135 Index 201 photogrammetry and, 128, 169nn136,139 trigonometry and, 128 Weyl and, 129–130, 132 Wittgenstein and, 119 Bruchmüller, Georg Heinrich, 105–108, 164n32 Brusilov Offensive, 105, 109 Brühl, Karl von, 39n26 Brühl, Marie von, 39n26 Bülow, Bernhard Wilhlem von, 59 Bülow, Heinrich von, 43, 59 Bundeswehr, 73 Bush, Vannevar, 89 Charles of Austria, Archduke, 34 Calculus applicatory method and, 97–98 Baroque power games and, 12, 28 Church and, 171n184 Dirichlet and, 97–98 higher mathematics and, 95, 97–99 Hilbert and, 167n103 infinitesimal, 97 lambda, 138 universal machine and, 138, 140–141 Zuse and, 140–141, 172n191 Cambridge University, 103, 110–111, 136, 166n85, 167n103, 171n188 Cameralistic order, 31–32 Conrad II, 4 Cantor, Georg, 130–131 Caracteres, 7–8 Cardano, Girolamo, 13n8...