Sex and Marriage Theorems

Mar 7, 2017

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Sex and Marriage Theorems
There is no Nobel Prize in mathematics. Find out how you can still earn yourself one if you are a mathematician. Featuring Gale and Shapley’s stable marriage theorem and and the debunking of a popular sex statistics myth.

In my life before YouTube I together with my colleague and friend Marty Ross used to write a math column for the AGE newspaper in Melbourne. We covered the topics that feature in this article in two articles in 2008. Check them out:

http://www.qedcat.com/archive_cleaned/Sex_lies_and_mathematics.html

http://www.qedcat.com/archive_cleaned/Mathematical_matchmaking.html

Here are the links to the Numberphile videos on the stable marriage problem

Thank you very much to Marty for proofreading and proofwatching drafts of this video.

Enjoy!

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