Today I'd like to direct you to the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, an online open-access journal that features poetry in each issue. The Table of Contents for the first issue of 2016 is now available here -- and I offer below a poem from Issue 1 of 2015. (Before sharing the poem "Prisoner's Dilemma" by Raymond Greenwell I want also to mention that JHM is looking for investigative journalists and that today's "Poem of the Day" at Poets.org is "Evolution" by Linda Bierds and inspired by the work of Alan Turing.)
I am particularly intrigued by Greenwell's poem because the Prisoner's Dilemma is a decision model close to my concerns about the environment. (More comments below.)
Prisoner's Dilemma by Raymond N. Greenwell
Your best choice is my demise.
My wise choice is your defeat.
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Thursday, February 11, 2016
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Tragedy of the Commons
Thinking in syllable-squares,
recalling ecologist Garrett Hardin (1915-2003)
and his 1968 wisdom, "Tragedy of the Commons."
recalling ecologist Garrett Hardin (1915-2003)
and his 1968 wisdom, "Tragedy of the Commons."
Maximum
may not be
optimum.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Prisoner's Dilemma -- and permutations
In game theory's original, single-play, Prisoner's Dilemma problem, two prisoners each are given the choice between silence and betrayal of the other. The optimal choice is betrayal -- and therein lies a paradox. Volume 1.3 of the online journal Unsplendid includes the following poem by Isaac Cates that reveals the nature of this classic decision dilemma.
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