Saturday, December 21, 2024
– Live Presentation with Peter Winkler –
Session at 12 Noon Atlanta time
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The Math Puzzle that Spawned 100 Philosophy Papers
Proposed in the year 2000 by philosopher Adam Elga,”Sleeping Beauty” seems to be a simple question about probability. Is it? If so, Why does it incite such passion? We’ll describe the various “camps” in the controversy, and examine their arguments. In the end, you’ll have to decide for yourself where you stand.
Dr. Peter Winkler is the William Morrill Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Dartmouth College. He is the author of about 160 research papers and holds a dozen patents in marine navigation, cryptography, holography, gaming, optical networking, and distributed computing. His research is primarily in combinatorics, probability, and the theory of computing, with forays into statistical physics. He is a winner of the Mathematical Association of America’s Lester R. Ford and David P. Robbins prizes, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. For the academic year 2019-2020, Dr. Winkler served as Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Public Dissemination of Mathematics at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York City. Dr. Winkler has written three books on mathematical puzzles, a book on cryptology in the game of bridge, and a portfolio of compositions for ragtime piano.The revised edition of his latest (and biggest) book, “Mathematical Puzzles,” is online free at https://math.dartmouth.edu/