Recent articles in this Journal will have suggested that there is a conflict between certain mathematicians and certain mariners on the subject of the efficacy of the Collision Regulations. The controversy is really philosophic rather than mathematical and, although it would never be suggested that the mathematical system we have seen is anything but flawless in isolation, there are grave doubts that it would work, even on a planet composed solely of deep water and supporting ships staffed only with mathematicians, having collision avoidance as their single preoccupation.
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F. J. Wylie (1962) studied this question.
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