Overview
- Looks at Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” from the perspectives of logic, mathematics, and computer science
- Makes use of contemporary mind mapping methods that show how logic can be extracted from this 2500-year-old text
- Presents a complete list of reasoning patterns found in Sun Tzu’s text
Part of the book series: Logic in Asia: Studia Logica Library (LIAA)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book examines an ancient Chinese work on strategy and warfare: Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”, from the perspectives of logic, mathematics, and computer science. Sun Tzu’s book has been studied and translated many times before, with viewpoints from historians, military- and business strategists, philosophers, and in the context of modern computer strategy games.
This book takes a new approach to study this 2500-year-old text. It uses modern mind mapping techniques to show a new dimension that uncovers meaning and structure not easily seen before. Mind maps are semantic diagrams of related concepts: they are used in this book in a restricted form, defined as Text Tree Mind Maps. A chapter coveringthe theoretical side of diagramming ancient text, explains the making of the mind maps used in this book and why showing old text in this way is so useful.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Ghica van Emde Boas was born as Hendrica Lubsen in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She received a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Amsterdam. She worked 30 years for IBM in the Netherlands. She received an outstanding contribution award for developing a test system that marked the end of the punched-cards era. Next, she was a developer of Relational Database Management Systems in its early days. Ghica authored an article in the IBM Journal of Research and Development, "Evaluating Horn Clauses in a Relational Database Environment" (1986), together with Peter van Emde Boas; and in the IBM Systems Journal, “Business Component Prototyper” (2000). Ghica is now retired.
Kaibo Xie was born in Hangzhou, China. He studied philosophy as an undergraduate student at the School of Humanities of Zhejiang University and logic as a master student at Tsinghua University. He got his Ph.D. degree at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam. His Ph.D. dissertation, "Where Causality, Conditionals and Epistemology meet; A Logical Inquiry" focuses on philosophical problems at the intersection of the study of conditionals, causality and epistemology and investigating logic approaches towards those problems. He has been interested in both Chinese classics and logic since his undergraduate studies. Though his publications mainly focus on philosophical logic, he is also doing research in the field where logic and ancient classics overlap. He is currently working as a postdoc in the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University.
Bonan Zhao is a Ph.D. student at the University of Edinburgh. She obtained M.Sc. in Logic, Cum Laude, from the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam, and a bachelor’s in philosophy from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Her current research is focused on computational models of human causal reasoning and generalization.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Analyzing the Logic of Sun Tzu in “The Art of War”, Using Mind Maps
Authors: Peter van Emde Boas, Ghica van Emde Boas, Kaibo Xie, Bonan Zhao
Series Title: Logic in Asia: Studia Logica Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6250-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-6249-3Published: 29 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-6252-3Published: 02 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-6250-9Published: 27 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2364-4613
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 411
Number of Illustrations: 247 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Logic, Historical Linguistics, History of China