Every Ig Nobel Prize celebrates something that makes people laugh, then think—each is a good, true, short story. An organization called Short Story, in South Korea, made this short video that tells the story of the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize for mathematics : The 2006 Ig Nobel Prize for mathematics was awarded to Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of […]
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Mathematicalistic Analysis of Broadway Collaboration Success
A 2005 study tried to use math techniques to analyze who was (and who will be) successful in building broadway shows: “Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem,” Brian Uzzi [Northwestern University] and Jarrett Spiro [Stanford University then, INSEAD now], American Journal of Sociology, vol. 111, no. 2, September 2005. The authors analyzed the small […]