Add new comment
-
Want facts and want them fast? Our Maths in a minute series explores key mathematical concepts in just a few words.
What do chocolate and mayonnaise have in common? It's maths! Find out how in this podcast featuring engineer Valerie Pinfield.
Is it possible to write unique music with the limited quantity of notes and chords available? We ask musician Oli Freke!
How can maths help to understand the Southern Ocean, a vital component of the Earth's climate system?
Was the mathematical modelling projecting the course of the pandemic too pessimistic, or were the projections justified? Matt Keeling tells our colleagues from SBIDER about the COVID models that fed into public policy.
PhD student Daniel Kreuter tells us about his work on the BloodCounts! project, which uses maths to make optimal use of the billions of blood tests performed every year around the globe.
Interesting, but moot:
"The solution of Guy's problem, and that of all of the guys, is a bundle of actions deemed rational within the described framework. The assumption that everyone behaves rationally may seem slightly unrealistic, but it's crucial in the game theoretical approach, since mathematics can't account for someone behaving irrationally or against their own interest. "
Actually, feeling sexual attraction and actions stemming out of this feeling are as far from rational as possible, and certainly obliterates the assumption. Bold, muscular jock, who will come and take her as he will, won't care about a probabilities in the slightest. He won't analyze the options. All that will happen will be "Damn, she's soooooo hot!" in his head, several hormones/neurotransmitters will flood his body, several minutes later, and the poor calculating Joe or Bob thinks: "If only I could do that..."