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… day with my friends, but also a little because I was curious about Maastricht university. So on a Saturday morning really early, we all gathered at the train station. During the ride the girls were chatting, excited about the day out. The boys were checking exercises from an earlier edition of MMM. The contrast couldn’t have been bigger and thinking back about it, I felt a little disappointed that they were so focused on winning. When we got to the university, our math teachers were already … no cake-lover wishes to change the distribution of her pins, then each of the slices is distributed proportionally with respect to the numbers of pins stuck into it. Carrot cake slices (For instance, if a particular slice has 2 red pins in it and 3 blue pins, then the owner of the red pins gets 2/5 of this slice and the owner of the blue pins gets 3/5.) Suppose that the cake is sliced into 10 pieces and that there are three cake-lovers, Red, Blue and Green: Red has 4 pins, Blue has 6 pins, and … after John Nash, an American mathematician (1928-2015), who is most famous for his ground-breaking work in game theory and decision-making. He shared the Nobel prize in economic sciences in 1994, and he shared the Abel prize in 2015 for his work on nonlinear partial differential equations. The 1998 biography and the 2001 movie A Beautiful Mind present an intriguing portrait of his life, scientific achievements, his mental illness and the resulting personal struggles. We say that the players are …