Maths at: Wordle

It's like the last day of school, because we are playing games!

Wordle,

Guess who,

Hangman.

Never has maths been so much fun.

Further reading: 

• Guess who fanfic
  
• What is the best Guess Who strategy?
• Three blue One Brown’s strategy for Wordle.
• Can you solve the longest word ladder?
  

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Maths at: Fantasy Football (Part 2)

The first episode got us all up to speed as to what on earth Fantasy Football was all about. The Maths at: team is now ready to plunder the depths of Josh's strategies and Thomas has been editing in haste. 

We can 100% guarantee that if you follow the strategy as specifed by Josh you will be in with a chance of winning and that's no Bull.

Once again your regulars, Ben and Thomas, are joined by the knowledgable Hannah Veale and the intriguing Josh Bull. Gather round as they seek answers to such questions as:

• is it luck, or is it skill?
  
• is it better to have consistent scorers, or one off star strikers?
  
• why is everyone regressing to the mean?

Of course, the simple answer is that you get reddit to do the hard work for you! See how in today's podcast.

Further reading:

• Josh Bull's Fantasy Football page, which contains all the history of his choices.
• Why not have a go at your own Fantasy team through The official Fantasy Premier League?
  
• For actual tips on Fantasy Football, Josh recommends Reddit.
• Alongside being brilliant at everything Hannah Veale is also a photographer. Why not check her out?
• Interested in the statistics that Ben showed? This paper quantifies the effect of having a crowd on your win ratio.
  

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Maths at the Movies: A Beautiful Mind

Ok, so the "Maths at" timeline is a mess.

• The Christmas episode was recorded in November.
• The Christmas episode reveals secrets from later on in the series.
• We tried to hide these secrets in the Mean Girls episode, which was recorded around seventh, but released first.
• When we I say that we've had a complaint about Liz's language it from the pi day episode, not the Mean Girls episode.

Is that all clear? And this is all because the recording quality of this episode is a little dodgy!

Sorry about all that. Just pretend that Thomas, Ben and Liz are Time Lords.

Anyway, we had to get there eventually. Probably number one of many science film lists: A Beautiful Mind. The biopic of John Nash, a prodigy behind the field of game theory.

To help us discern our cooperators from our defectors we are joined by the wonderful

Dr Vince Knight

So, if you're wondering:

• which queue to join;
• which region in Risk to take;
• or simply how to win at Monpoly,

then don't ask us, we're all about the theory!

If you're interested in watching A Beautiful Mind you can follow the Amazon link below.

Further reading links:

• John Nash's biography;
  
• John Nash's reference letter, thesis and other assorted ephemera;

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