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How to Hunt a Submarine
Mon 11 November 2019
Department of Chemistry
A Lecture by Professor Tom Korner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge.
The third talk in a series of lectures organised by the Cambridge Philosophical Society in the Michaelmas Term 2019.
Abstract: The longer title would be `How to sink a submarine in World War II’.
Churchill wrote ’... the only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril’. The Japanese Navy lost its war against the submarine, the Allied Navies could have lost their war. Many things contributed to victory. One of them was the new idea of `Operations Research’.
This lecture only discusses simple ideas and only uses simple mathematics. But they were the right simple ideas and it was not easy to find them in the fog of war.
Cost: free
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