MCFAM Seminar - Randomness and Simulation through the Ages

Speaker: Arkady Shemyakin

 

Subtitle: Randomness and Simulation through the Ages

 

Abstract: The content of the talk will deal with the materials collected for a book of the same title to be published by Springer Verlag in 2026. The author is interested in the foundations of probability and decision theory. He will address the ancient history of randomized decisions and its artifacts that can be found traveling around the world and working in world museums.