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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Boolean Logic and Winning at Cluedo (Clue)

Boolean Logic and Winning at Cluedo (Clue)

The Ori­gins of Boolean Log­ic Boolean log­ic was devel­oped by George Boole, a self-taught math­e­mati­cian and logi­cian from Eng­land. Boole’s inter­est in log­ic began ear­ly, inspired by his father, a shoe­mak­er with a pas­sion for sci­ence and math­e­mat­ics. In 1854, Boole pub­lished his sem­i­nal work, An Inves­ti­ga­tion of the Laws of Thought, where he intro­duced an inter­est­ing con­cept where he

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