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	Game theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Game theory is a hybrid branch of applied mathematics and economics that studies strategic situations where players choose different actions in an attempt to maximize their returns.
		The focus of attention is usually not so much on what is the best way to play such a game, but simply on whether one or the other player has a winning strategy.
		Game theorists may assume players always act rationally to maximize their wins (the Homo economicus model), but real humans often act either irrationally, or act rationally to maximize the wins of some larger group of people (altruism).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Game_theory (4021 words)

	Time [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		One way to answer the question "What is time?" is to declare that it is whatever the time variable t is denoting in the best-confirmed and most fundamental theories of current science.
		That's from your own perspective though; observers who remained stationary on earth and judged your flight from their perspective will have observed you for thousands of years.
		Mathematical physicists have subsequently described even more time machines, or at least universes containing backward time travel, that are consistent with Einstein's equations of general relativity.
	www.iep.utm.edu /t/time.htm (16740 words)

	Science fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In this view, the elements that would previously have been presented as fantasy (magic, transformations, divination, mind-reading, fabulous beasts, new civilizations, higher beings, etc.) are rationalized or supported through scientific or quasiscientific rationales (psychic abilities such as telekinesis and precognition, aliens and their civilizations, etc.).
		Furthermore, Asimov treats his "soft sciences" in a remarkably "hard" way: his fictional Science of psychohistory is a mathematical way of encapsulating the "human texture" of his sociological story.
		Also, fans (or fen, in the argot of the topic) originated science fiction conventions, a way of meeting to discuss their mutual interest; the original and largest convention is the Worldcon.
	science-fiction.iqnaut.net (3521 words)

	Pascal's Wager
		Then consistent with decision theory, you could either pay the dollar to play, or refuse to play, for either way your overall expectation would be 0.
		Your reason is no more shocked in choosing one rather than the other, since you must of necessity choose...
		But if there were three lives to gain, you would have to play (since you are under the necessity of playing), and you would be imprudent, when you are forced to play, not to chance your life to gain three at a game where there is an equal risk of loss and gain.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/pascal-wager (5534 words)

	Games and Puzzles Journal #41: Diamond Solitaire
		The easiest way to see this is to try to figure out how one could have arrived at the sweep board position, or equivalently try to play backwards from the sweep position.
		In GPJ #36 [1], we saw in the Forward/Backward Theorem that backward play is equivalent to forward play from the complement of the board position.
		It is therefore possible to play this board using a chess or go board, although this is not recommended because the symmetry of the board is hard to see.
	www.gpj.connectfree.co.uk /gpjw.htm (3577 words)

	Science News Online: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Meg Lowman faced and met this challenge in a unique way, by combining her scientific exploration of tree canopies with the nurturing and education of her sons, Edward and James.
		Gödel, as she portrays him, is a taciturn intellectual "a man who speaks only when spoken to and then only about mathematics," whose delusions and paranoia eventually drive him to madness.
		Mathematics is an ever-evolving discipline, but Ash and Gross assert that many non-mathematicians are under the impression that everything that can be solved has been solved.
	www.sciencenews.org /pages/books.asp (9827 words)

	Crafts, Games, Hobbies & Stamps -- Book Journeys
		The Holistic Approach to Magic: 7 Possible Ways to Perform the Impossible!
		'Doll kitchens in Germany were originally a play thing for adults and evolved, toward the end of the Eighteenth century, into toys for children.
		In this book, Eva Stille follows the evolution of the doll kitchen and shows how the social development of big real kitchens influenced doll kitchens in each new era.' - Publisher's statement.
	www.bookjourneys.com /crafts.html (577 words)

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