Sex and Marriage Theorems

There is no Nobel Prize in mathematics. Find out how you can still earn yourself one if you are a mathematician. Featuring Gale and Shapley's stable marriage theorem and and the debunking of a popular sex statistics myth.

In my life before YouTube I together with my colleague and friend Marty Ross used to write a math column for the AGE newspaper in Melbourne. We covered the topics that feature in this article in two articles in 2008. Check them out:

http://www.qedcat.com/archive_cleaned/Sex_lies_and_mathematics.html

http://www.qedcat.com/archive_cleaned/Mathematical_matchmaking.html

Here are the links to the Numberphile videos on the stable marriage problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcv1IqHWAzg
http://youtu.be/LtTV6rIxhdo

Thank you very much to Marty Ross for proofreading and proofwatching drafts of this video as well as to Danil Dmitriev the official Mathologer translator for Russian for his subtitles.

Enjoy :)

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