From Standup Mathematician.

More details about Jane Street’s AMP: https://jane-st.co/SUM-AMP25

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Please help me thank Mithuna for enduring all of that. Go check out her excellent physics channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LookingGlassUniverse

Here is the main paper: A Non-Terminating Game of Beggar-My-Neighbor https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13855

Huge thanks to Brayden Casella and Richard Mann for helping out with the video.

Richard Mann’s site: https://www.richardpmann.com/beggar-my-neighbour-records.html

Beggar My Neighbour 1999 article by Marc M. Paulhus: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2589054 (paywall)

The game playing out on mathstonod thanks to @mscroggs: https://mathstodon.xyz/@beggarmyneighbour

All the best maths rumours start on mathstodon. https://mathstodon.xyz/@christianp/111912232261820441

The book I was waving around is The Mathematics of Games (Recreations in mathematics) by John D Beasley https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1854963M/The_mathematics_of_games

Mega thanks to my Patreon supporters. They keep me in the game. https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths

CORRECTIONS
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Filming by Alex Genn-Bash
Editing by Gus Melton
Written and performed by Matt Parker
Produced by Nicole Jacobus
Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson
Rug courtesy of Lucie requesting it lives in my office not at home.

MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician
Website: http://standupmaths.com/