[1] Wolfgang Haack studied mechanical engineering at the Leibniz University Hannover and mathematics in Jena.

After a short study and research period in Hamburg and a job as an assistant at the Technical University of Stuttgart he habilitated in 1929 at the TH Danzig (now Gdańsk).

His work on an analytical formula for projectile nose cone shapes that exhibit the lowest air resistance depending on caliber or diameter and length or volume and length of the profile was published in 1941 by the Lilienthal society[2] but was kept secret during World War II.

[3] Only after the end of World War II have Haack shaped projectiles for artillery guns and sniper rifles been produced.

[citation needed] Haack recognized early on the potential of computers for scientific and industrial research.

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft assumed that the existing computing machines at Darmstadt, Göttingen and Munich were sufficient for the time being.