Grünbaum, F. Alberto. <br/><br/>
Parrondo's paradox. 
 A tour from thermodynamics to surprises in a casino. 

 - Rio de Janeiro:  IMPA,  2017. 
 - video online 
<br/><br/> Talk. 
<br/><br/>The search for a "perpetual motion machine" started a long time ago. It reappears in a disguised form in one of the famous Feynman lecture notes of the 1960's. Close to year 2000 J. Parrondo found some troubles with Feynman's arguments and this evolved into a remarkably simple probabilistic paradox that people are trying to illustrate in economics, the social sciences, biology and other areas.   I will discuss a formulation that can be explained using very basic linear algebra at an undergraduate level. Proper analysis of this situation in the quantum case remains a challenging open problem . 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Matematica.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>cs