Monday, July 23, 2012

Marriage

I was reading Strang's Applied Mathematics the other day.  He got into talking about the "Wedding Problem".  Right before this, he was talking about another problem you can apply some game theory to called "Escape".  He then likened the winning strategy of the "Wedding Problem" to the winning strategy to "Escape".

Conclusion?  I shall directly quote from Strang, I swear to you, no joke, this is printed in the Applied Mathematics book, I am not paraphrasing it, this is verbatim:

"Inside the wedding game, the real game is Escape."

Genius.  This guy is fucking genius.

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