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Mathematics into Pictures: 4: Games and Evolution

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

or How to See the Beauty of Maths. The Royal Institution Annual Christmas Lectures for Young People by Professor Christopher Zeeman. Professor of Mathematics, Warwick University.
A series of six programmes
In which Professor Zeeman runs a gambling school, and shows his audience how to get the better of the insurance man. With the aid of game theory, we discover whether it is a better bet to be a hawk or a dove, and what happens to bullies and retaliators in the struggle for survival.
Presented for television by HILARY HENSON

Contributors

Speaker:
Professor Christopher Zeeman
Presented for television by:
Hilary Henson
Source: Radio Times

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