Feynman Solved ‘Restaurant Dilemma’ 50 Years Ago — Now a Study Confirms His Mathematics
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Scientists have recreated and re-solved a fun math problem that renowned American physicist Richard Feynman sketched on paper while sitting in a restaurant with a friend about half a century ago.
Feynman solved ‘restaurant dilemma’ 50 years ago — now a study confirms his mathematics
Davide Castelvecchi in Nature: In a scene that could have easily featured in an episode of the US television sitcom The Big Bang Theory, the late US physicist Richard Feynman once turned a visit to a Thai restaurant he often dined at into a mathematical riddle: how adventurous should we be in trying new dishes? Feynman promptly solved this on a sheet of paper. Now, behavioural scientists have revisited Feynman’s solution — some of which had been…
Should you order well-known things in a restaurant or try something new? Richard Feynman solved this problem mathematically in the 1970s.
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