In the last three decades Logic has emerged from the ivory tower and started to address problems of human concern, like how we think, how we vote and how we act. We will give a sampling of some recent insights.
Prof. Parikh explained the treacherous decision making process involved in choosing a concert to attend between a husband and a wife.
A large audience listened to the fine points of why they were not in Italy if the sentence had a proof.
The audience pondered if King Solomon’s wise decision would have been affected had the two women, who competed for the possession of a child, engaged in some strategic play.
Prof. Parikh tried to throw in some measures of utility strength to the idea of preference so that Kenneth Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem becomes possible.
