"math is hard!"
x-posted in part from a flame war in polyamory
although there are really quite a few people out there who just don't like to do math... the understanding and implementation of game theory does require a certain degree of mathematical familiarity (even if only on an intuitive level), and some people just don't like to do any sort of number-crunching... ( Read more... )
although there are really quite a few people out there who just don't like to do math... the understanding and implementation of game theory does require a certain degree of mathematical familiarity (even if only on an intuitive level), and some people just don't like to do any sort of number-crunching... ( Read more... )
please note the correlations explored by Dr. Thomas Palaima & Bill Broyles in the UT plan II symposium "How War Changes Lives," and the Plan II/Classics Dept. course, "Myths of Violence & War in Ancient & Modern Culture," which compared the Iliad & the Oddysey to Vietnam-era protest songs (lyrical explorations of the duty of citizens to voice their conscience concerning ethics in war) and the corresponding difficulty of the warrior returning home to civilian life. Although the American Civil War is perhaps a better direct comparison to the Trojan War, wherever&whenever a conflict is set, the basic themes are similar: how can we all experience the camraderie shared between warriors, which is so rarely paralleled in civilian life (how many of our civilian co-workers would throw themselves on a grenade to ( ... )
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