Frederick William Lanchester, creator of Lanchester’s equations

While considered one of England’s top three automotive engineers, an important contributor to the fields of engineering and aerodynamics, an early airpower theorist, as well as the co-invented the field of operations research, Frederick Lanchester (1868 – 1946) is best remembered for the Lanchester equations.  Lanchester devised a series of differential equations to demonstrate the power relationships between opposing forces.  Lanchester's equations are at the heart of many contemporary US Department of Defense computerized wargames.

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