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The History of ASTIN. Invited Lecture at the 50 Years Anniversary of ASTIN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2015

Hans Bühlmann
Hans Bühlmann*
Affiliation:
ETH, Mathematik, CH-8092 Zürich, E-mail: hbuhl@math.ethz.ch
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Abstract

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“War is the father of all things”. This sentence of Heraklit (between 540 and 535 BC) has a lot of truth in general. I am quoting it in connection with World War II (1939-1945) and inventions originating in this period.

The best known examples of inventions (or first practical use of such invention) are

• Nuclear Fission leading to the construction of the atomic bomb and nuclear reactors,

• The Programmable Electronic Computer. Best known is the machine of John von Neumann as Los Alamos: Mathematical Analyser Numerical Integrator and Computer (MANIAC),

• Radar to guide the airplanes particularly at night and in bad weather conditions,

• Penicillin to fight bacteriological diseases.

Some of these inventions relied on original discoveries already made before the war, but during the war they were for the first time used on a large scale.

Type
Invited Historical Article
Information
ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , November 2007 , pp. 191 - 202
Copyright
Copyright © ASTIN Bulletin 2007

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