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06/16/23: Infinite Games -- Strategies, Logic, Theory, and Computation, with Joel David Hamkins

06/16/23: Infinite Games -- Strategies, Logic, Theory, and Computation, with Joel David Hamkins

FromBoston Computation Club


06/16/23: Infinite Games -- Strategies, Logic, Theory, and Computation, with Joel David Hamkins

FromBoston Computation Club

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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
Jun 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Joel David Hamkins is a mathematician and logician at Oxford, where he studies the logic of the infinite. Today Joel joined us to talk about infinite dimensional games. As Joel explained, there are really three areas of mathematical inquiry related to games: Game Theory, as traditionally used in economics, ecology, etc.; the Theory of Games, which many CS students learn a little bit of in Complexity Theory; and the Logic of Games, which is really the camp where this talk falls. This was a totally intriguing talk in which pretty deep mathematical ideas naturally emerged from simple, playful premises. We really enjoyed it and we hope you do too! This talk is also available in video form, here.
Released:
Jun 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (53)

The Boston Computation Club is a small seminar group focused on mathematical computer science, and computational mathematics. Its name is plagiarized from the London Computation Club. Boston Computation Club meetings occur roughly every other week, on weekends, around 5pm EDT (modulo speaker availability). The usual format is a 20m presentation followed by 40m of discussion. Some, but not all, meetings are posted on YouTube and in podcast form.