War of Guns and Mathematics Mathematical Practices and Communities in France and its Western Allies Around World War I

ISBN-13: 9781470414696 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 424 str.

Opis

For a long time, World War I has been shortchanged by the historiography of science. Until recently, World War II was usually considered as the defining event for the formation of the modern relationship between science and society. In this context, the effects of the First World War, by contrast, were often limited to the massive deaths of promising young scientists.