Show mathematics aid to leaders in addition to his attainments as a ches player napoleon was a mathematician a science which has always attracted great soldiers As a oung man a writer in the london chronicle declares he was quite als by his ready manipulation of mathematical formulae and his keen mathematical brain was a big factor in his success as a general wellington also had a similar and on one occasion he told rev R that he attributed much of his success to his lifelong devotion to the science of numbers many other famous soldiers of the last century were adepts in rapid and accurate cal cul atlon among them lee jackson and moltke washington too was a a subject in which he was proficient |