Probability and Game Theory in The Hunger Games | Wired Science. This is a guest post by Michael A. Lewis (PDF), a friend of mine who is a professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. One of the things I found most interesting and surprising about the movie The Hunger Games (HG) is how mathematical it is. The basic premise of the story is that there is a society in what used to be North America made up of a centralized capital and 12 outer districts.
Seventy-four years ago the districts staged an uprising against the capital which was violently put down. As punishment for this transgression, every year each of the districts must send one boy and one girl (it’s not clear what would happen to transgendered persons in this world) to take part in the Hunger Games. Let’s focus on two mathematical aspects of the movie: the lottery probabilities, and the game theory of sleeping.
The way districts choose which boy and girl to send to the capital for the Hunger Games is by lot. Now let’s consider some of the complications. Top 250. The Fifty Greatest Cult Movies of All Time | Nerve.com - StumbleUpon. My 100 Must-See Movies - a list by taniasalinas8 - StumbleUpon. The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema | 100. Night Watch | Empire | www.empireonline.com - StumbleUpon. From Brazil to Japan to France and Senegal, from Neo-Realism to Dogme to J-horror, we've compiled a list of the very best films not in the English language (note: features, not documentaries).
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