PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS It’s Flashcards Friday at Math Science History! I’m Gabrielle Birchak. If you’ve been with me this week and last week, you already know I have been deep in the world of game theory. And here’s the cool part, did you know that you are a game theorist. You’ve been doing it your whole life. Every negotiation every shortcut
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS Game theory is everywhere, from the moves you make in chess to the way countries negotiate treaties, from the strategies in our favorite video game to the decisions we make every day. But how did this field come to be? Who were the brilliant minds behind it, and what mathematical breakthroughs made it possible? Welcome to Math! Science!
It’s Flashcard Fridays here at Math! Science! History! I’m your host, Gabrielle Birchak, and today we’re looking at a mystery many of us have experienced: why do airline prices jump around, sometimes within minutes, after we search for a flight? You check once. It’s $278. You think, “Hmm, maybe I’ll wait a few hours.” You check again. $348. You wait