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Gunnery: And some of its Mathematical Problems*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

W. M. Roberts
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The title of my lecture is rather misleading. When I was asked to deliver it I thought I could profitably indicate how very definitely mathematics is used in a particular activity, such as gunnery, the application being neither complicated nor varied. If one was asked to write a paper on the utility of mathematics in engineering or in wireless electricity, the problem would be much more diffuse. The man who makes or fires a gun is only, after all, making one particular machine or doing one particular job. Hence it is possible briefly to state what mathematical difficulties he encounters.

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Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 15 , Issue 209 , October 1930 , pp. 187 - 192
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1930

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Footnotes

*

A lecture delivered on January 7th, 1930, at the Annual Meeting.

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† A point is 7½°.