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Sunday, April 06, 2008

Dating Problems

A colleague sends along an obituary of David Gale, a mathematician who pioneered early work in assignment problems, which find optimal matches based on established criteria. The successors of these methods now deliver best matches for the online dating services we see all the ads for today. More about the topic in a recent NYTimes article: Algorithms of Love.

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