Lanchester's laws
Leyes de Lanchester
- Date
- 1915-1916 · confidence medium
- Place
- Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Frederick William Lanchester (United Kingdom, 1916) and, independently, Mikhail Osipov (Russia, 1915)
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Frederick Lanchester, and independently Mikhail Osipov, formulated differential equations relating the strength of two opposing armies over time, founding the mathematical analysis of modern combat.
What it led to
- Military operations research
- US Army combat simulations
- Competition models used outside the military
- Studies of modern conflict strategy