Math, Productivity, Happiness and Decision-making

Math, Productivity, Happiness and Decision-making

Jan 18, 2012, 05:10 PM - 06:00 PM | 740 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Andrew Critch, UC Berkeley (Speaker)
Most of us want to be happier, get things done, help other people, have a sense of purpose, and achieve other such deeply human goals. In this seminar, we hope to take advantage of our analytic minds --- our comparative advantage as mathematical thinkers --- to address these goals. We will generally assume the tennet that if a life skill (e.g. reasoning under uncertainty, time management,...