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oktober 10, 2004
Terrorism och matematik
AP-artikeln Mathematicians Offer Help in Terror Fight berättar om ett gäng matematiker och andra som samlades för att diskutera terrorism:
A small group of thinking men and women convened at Rutgers University last month to consider how order theory — a branch of abstract mathematics that deals with hierarchical relationships — could be applied to the war on terror.
Troligen är det DIMACS Workshop on Applications of Order Theory to Homeland Defense and Computer Security som avses. Se Abstracts samt Important links.
Artikeln nämner bland annat matematikern Jonathan David Farley :
Mathematician Jonathan Farley of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [...] said he was inspired to organize the meeting by the movie "A Beautiful Mind." The film tells the story of mathematician John Forbes Nash, whose work in game theory found application in Cold War military strategy, international trade and the auctioning of broadcast frequencies by the Federal Communications Commission [...].
Farley har t.ex. skrivit Breaking Al Qaeda Cells: A Mathematical Analysis of Counterterrorism Operations (A Guide for Risk Assessment and Decision Making) (PDF).
Övriga länkar:
Ivars Peterson Splitting Terrorist Cells
Order theory
Posted by hakank at oktober 10, 2004 08:33 FM Posted to Matematik