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Intelligence Squared · 2025-01-03 · 26 min · 5,025 words

How to Win Every Game, with Marcus du Sautoy, Part Two

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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorenti. For this episode, we're rejoining for part two of our conversation with the mathematician Marcus de Sotoy. Marcus is professor of mathematics at Oxford University, where he holds the prestigious Simone Chair for the public understanding of science. His recent book

is around the world in 80 games. This is the second part of our two-part episode, How to Win Every Game, with Marcus DeSotoy. If you haven't heard part one, do just jump back an episode and get up to speed. Now it's time to rejoin the conversation, recorded recently at the Pleasants Theatre in London. Here's our host for the evening, science communicator, Dr.

Shinny Samaro. Let's talk about gender for a second, because You mentioned how men and women were sort of different in the way they designed games and the way they play games and you talked about bridge. What did you discover? Yes, so um I said that Phileas Fogg's game of choice was whist.

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