Tolstoy's Mathematics in "War and Peace"
Paul Vitanyi
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.
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