Math for Primates » campaigns http://www.mathforprimates.com Finally a Podcast for Simians, by Simians Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:52:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Tom and Nick are a couple of monkeys who decided that arguing about mathematics was a better use of their time then throwing poo at one another. Were they right? You be the judge. Nick Horton and Tom Henderson no Nick Horton and Tom Henderson mail@nickhorton.net mail@nickhorton.net (Nick Horton and Tom Henderson) Two Simians Talkin' About Math, Science, and Education math, mathematics, education, science Math for Primates » campaigns http://www.mathforprimates.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.mathforprimates.com Episode 002: Why Campaigns Go Negative: An Intro to Game Theory http://www.mathforprimates.com/2009/12/18/why-campaigns-go-negative-an-intro-to-game-theory/ http://www.mathforprimates.com/2009/12/18/why-campaigns-go-negative-an-intro-to-game-theory/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:42:31 +0000 Nick Horton http://www.mathforprimates.com/?p=38 In this podcast we discuss:
  • What a ‘Game’ is, mathematically
  • Some areas where games apply to real life (most of them!)
  • How game theory is applied in biology
  • The Prisoners Dilemma game, and
  • Why all political campaigns go negative

For more about game theory, a great resource is GameTheory.net.  And I’ll be posting a series of articles on my blog introducing game theory in politics and biology over the next few months.

Apologies

I’ve got two things to apologize for.  First, that it’s taken so long to get this second episode on the web.  After we posted the last one, we were heading right into the last weeks of the term, and lord knows how that goes.

The second thing is that this episode had some technical difficulties.  There is some clipping here and there, and some chucks had to be removed (sorry if that breaks the flow).

At the end of the episode, I’ve appended a short discussion of the Nash Equilibrium in Game Theory.  We’d actually had a section on that within the podcast, but it was too messed up to use.  So, I cut that whole chunk out and we redid it, and added at the end.

]]> http://www.mathforprimates.com/2009/12/18/why-campaigns-go-negative-an-intro-to-game-theory/feed/ 2 campaigns,politics In this podcast we discuss: - What a 'Game' is, mathematically Some areas where games apply to real life (most of them!) How game theory is applied in biology The Prisoners Dilemma game, and Why all political campaigns go negative - For more ... In this podcast we discuss: * What a 'Game' is, mathematically * Some areas where games apply to real life (most of them!) * How game theory is applied in biology * The Prisoners Dilemma game, and * Why all political campaigns go negative For more about game theory, a great resource is GameTheory.net (http://www.GameTheory.net).  And I'll be posting a series of articles on my blog (http://www.sapiengames.com)introducing game theory in politics and biology over the next few months. Apologies I've got two things to apologize for.  First, that it's taken so long to get this second episode on the web.  After we posted the last one, we were heading right into the last weeks of the term, and lord knows how that goes. The second thing is that this episode had some technical difficulties.  There is some clipping here and there, and some chucks had to be removed (sorry if that breaks the flow). At the end of the episode, I've appended a short discussion of the Nash Equilibrium in Game Theory.  We'd actually had a section on that within the podcast, but it was too messed up to use.  So, I cut that whole chunk out and we redid it, and added at the end. Nick Horton and Tom Henderson no 24:59