{"id":61,"date":"2015-05-22T16:41:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T16:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2015-05-22T16:41:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T16:41:23","slug":"mathematics-in-sci-fi-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics in Sci-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Quantum Thief<\/em>, 2010, by Hannu Rajaniemi starts out with \u201cthe prisoner\u2019s dilemma\u201d an aspect of game theory and the mathematics of rational decision making.\u00a0 Outside the prison, \u201cthe games are not pure and perfect in their simplicity, capturing all of mathematics in their undecidability.\u201d\u00a0 Escaping the prison puts the hero deep into the \u201cmatrix\u201d and the cool aspects of the tale are computational and physics related.\u00a0 There is a nice simile tossed in, \u201ca replicating strategy family, like a flyer in a Game of Life,\u201d meaningful only to those who know that game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quantum Thief, 2010, by Hannu Rajaniemi starts out with \u201cthe prisoner\u2019s dilemma\u201d an aspect of game theory and the mathematics of rational decision making.\u00a0 Outside the prison, \u201cthe games are not pure and perfect in their simplicity, capturing all of mathematics in their undecidability.\u201d\u00a0 Escaping the prison puts the hero deep into the \u201cmatrix\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}