FLASHCARDS! You Already Think Like a Game Theorist!

FLASHCARDS! You Already Think Like a Game Theorist!

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

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Math! Science! History! The Birth of Game Theory

Math! Science! History! The Birth of Game Theory

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!

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