It seems quite easy to take a decisión when we know all data of the various offers.
But when we have only a part of them, if we don’t set out the problem in a correct way, we come across the ‘election paradox’.
In our story, Laudrup has to take a decision on two offers, but he only knows perfectly one of them. As we advance on the solution, the choice becomes more difficult.
It's a secret between the club owner and the director of a sports newspaper. But it begins to run by SMS.
All will lead us to the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio.
By the way, we'll find spirals, sunflowers, pine cones, shells, roots and leaves, methods to win on sport bettings, violins, the Vitruvian man... ah! and a bit of Maths, of course.
The sponsor of the Football World Championship 2015 in Canada i going to give away some gifts to the best scorers. But a last minute change in the number of gifts creates a curious change in their apportionment. Try to find out what happens!
Friendship has been one of the areas
in which the extension of social networking has had the greatest impact.
The dictionary defines friendship as
"Personal affection, pure and selfless, shared with another person, which
is born and is strengthened by the deal". Maybe we should revise this
definition, or maybe not.
Today, thanks to Internet, we are
connected with our lifelong friends, and with the most recent ones. Friends who
have drunk with us many beers, and other ones with who we haven’t taken any at
all. Friends who were there in difficult times, and others that I’m sure they
will be there in the future. Friends who share likes, and others diametrically
different. Friends from the school, institute, college. Co-workers and family,
and in spite of it, folks. And some new acquaintances installed in the category
of friends, and may be they’ll be so, because of the definition.
From time to time we look askance at
the friends counter of our friends. Sometimes with curiosity, other times with
some envy, or indifference, or admiration. We are used to measure everything,
to quantify all aspects of life, as if the amount were the important, and
friendship doesn’t escape from this contemporary fashion.
Some people are even obsessed with
it. My new entry in Matifubol is dedicated to them, and to everybody in general.
Hope you like it: Breakfast at Les Deux Magots.
And thanks for being there, even if
you don’t feel like reading it. Or if you don’t like it.
Mathematical refreshment for summer Football and happiness. An easy and refreshing problem for this summer, that helps us not to forget exponentiation.
It's difficult to agree on what we know, when each one uses different data.
But when we all start from the same data, should not always reach the same conclusions?
A story which mixes paradoxes statistics, charts, news media, index numbers, sports trophies, data tables, economic results, football clubs and contrary opinions.
Many thanks to all those who visited my website during this first year of Matifutbol.
Thanks to all those who liked it, to those who share it, to those who propose new ways of solving the problems, to those who detected the errors I made; to all the 25.000 internauts from all the world who visited Matifutbol.
For the next twelve months, I'll keep on making more stories, in order to help you teach Maths to your students. I hope you'll like them.
