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This is a Wall Street think-tank parable inspired by the films Batteries Not Included and The Imitation Game.
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John Nash was a respected Nobel Prize winning mathematician in his golden years of semi-retirement teaching and studying (casually) at the prestigious school Princeton University. Nash had worked on some valuable equilibrium-theories applicable to modern economics. One day, Nash received a letter from a man claiming he had found an intriguing method of evaluating risk and probability calculations (applicable for Wall Street stock market analyses!) based on fractions only. Nash was certainly interested (since fraction-analysis were somewhat relevant to Nash's own studies regarding the dynamic quality of number relations).
Two months later, Nash had a dream while napping that the man who sent him the letter was actually a giant alien robot named Metroplex, hailing from a distant planet of robots called Cybertron. Metroplex told Nash (in his dream) that fractions held the potential of decoding important number value concepts and quantity relations relevant to studies of how values interact in a competitive economic system (i.e., Wall Street). When Nash woke up from his dream, he was convinced that Metroplex was real and that it was he who sent him that letter to Princeton about fraction analysis. Two months later, Nash received yet another letter from the same man claiming he wanted to visit Nash at Princeton to discuss fractions with him.
The man never showed up to visit Nash, but two months later, Nash had yet another dream in which Metroplex visited him (from Cybertron!) and told him about an instructional 'lesson-plan' to teach new age math students about using fractions to evaluate Wall Street patterns. Nash liked the notion and when he woke up and went to Princeton the next day, he generated fraction worksheets for an instructional lesson-plan (just as 'Metroplex' had suggested during Nash's dream!) for some graduate math students. Nash's students loved it (especially because it was rather nifty to use fraction sets to analyze groups of emerging values in a stock market). Nash wondered if capitalism (e.g., Wall Street) could be 'creatively coordinated' with elementary intelligence.
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John Nash was a respected Nobel Prize winning mathematician in his golden years of semi-retirement teaching and studying (casually) at the prestigious school Princeton University. Nash had worked on some valuable equilibrium-theories applicable to modern economics. One day, Nash received a letter from a man claiming he had found an intriguing method of evaluating risk and probability calculations (applicable for Wall Street stock market analyses!) based on fractions only. Nash was certainly interested (since fraction-analysis were somewhat relevant to Nash's own studies regarding the dynamic quality of number relations).
Two months later, Nash had a dream while napping that the man who sent him the letter was actually a giant alien robot named Metroplex, hailing from a distant planet of robots called Cybertron. Metroplex told Nash (in his dream) that fractions held the potential of decoding important number value concepts and quantity relations relevant to studies of how values interact in a competitive economic system (i.e., Wall Street). When Nash woke up from his dream, he was convinced that Metroplex was real and that it was he who sent him that letter to Princeton about fraction analysis. Two months later, Nash received yet another letter from the same man claiming he wanted to visit Nash at Princeton to discuss fractions with him.
The man never showed up to visit Nash, but two months later, Nash had yet another dream in which Metroplex visited him (from Cybertron!) and told him about an instructional 'lesson-plan' to teach new age math students about using fractions to evaluate Wall Street patterns. Nash liked the notion and when he woke up and went to Princeton the next day, he generated fraction worksheets for an instructional lesson-plan (just as 'Metroplex' had suggested during Nash's dream!) for some graduate math students. Nash's students loved it (especially because it was rather nifty to use fraction sets to analyze groups of emerging values in a stock market). Nash wondered if capitalism (e.g., Wall Street) could be 'creatively coordinated' with elementary intelligence.
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