![]() In a letter written in 1613 he described how he planned to dedicate two years of his life to interviewing and ranking 11 possible candidates and then making a calculated choice. When Kepler (of the Kepler conjecture) lost his first wife to cholera, he decided to make finding his next wife a mathematical process. ![]() This may all sound very impersonal as a way to find a partner, but math has been used to locate love. The ideal thing to do would be to date just the right number of people to gain the best sense of your options while leaving the highest probability of not missing your ideal partner. That said, if you take too long dating people, you run the risk of missing your ideal partner and being forced to make do with whoever is available at the end. This makes permanently partnering up with the first person you date a bit of a gamble: You should date a few people to get the lay of the land. ![]() When you first start dating people, you don’t know, on average, how romantically well matched other people could be to you, and without that baseline you cannot ascertain if someone is an above average catch and someone you should settle down with. Out now from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.įinding a life partner is a delicate balance. Excerpted from Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician’s Journey Through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More by Matt Parker. ![]()
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