米纳·里斯系美国一位女应用数学家。此文以回忆录形式叙述美国数学家在第二次世界大战期间为战争服务的研究工作及所取得的成就,和战争对数学发展的促进,可作为数学史读,也可供我国数学家在如何将理论与实践结合方面有所借鉴。 Mina Rees is a female applied mathematician in the United States. This paper describes memoirs of American mathematicians during the Second World War for the war work and the achievements made, and the promotion of war on the development of mathematics, can be used as a history of mathematics, but also for our mathematicians in the how Learn from the combination of theory and practice.