Maximum overhang, optimum reward
Friday, March 4, 2011 - 11:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Yuval Peres, principal researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond and manager of the Theory Group, always advocates both healthy skepticism and an open mind when it comes to problem solving. Even so, Peres was pleasantly surprised when a paper he co-authored won the prestigious David P. Robbins Prize from the Mathematics Association of America (MAA) for taking a completely new approach to a problem mathematicians had considered solved for decades.