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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Ludwig Boltzmann: Entropy, Atoms, and Mental Health

Ludwig Boltzmann: Entropy, Atoms, and Mental Health

In the sci­ences, we cel­e­brate big ideas. We cel­e­brate equa­tions that stitch the invis­i­ble world of atoms to the world we touch. We cel­e­brate the peo­ple who see pat­terns the rest of us miss. But we rarely cel­e­brate some­thing more fun­da­men­tal: the whole human mind that car­ries those ideas, with its strengths, its lim­its, and its storms. Today, we are

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