Andrew Belmonte, Pennsylvania State U, Koh Lecture on Mathematics in Our Time: Games, Decisions, Evolution, and Chance
SAS 2203Humans play games. Sometimes we roll the dice, or buy lottery tickets - sometimes we play chess, or mind games of manipulation. History gives us two examples of the development of new mathematical ideas and directions from our playful habits: games of chance, which led to the formulation of Probability Theory, and games of strategy,…