Quinta Ruban and Games Theory

This week's opinion column in the Nordic cultural newsletter has been penned by the editor, Jorvik Stilten, and looks at Games Theory, and the well-established problem of how to divide up an estate amongst various creditors.  Two thousand years ago, the sages of the Babylonian Talmud addressed this question in a mysterious way by offering a series of numerical examples with no hint of the general underlying principle. Their answer was so obscure that people assumed that the rabbis were mistaken. Recently however modern economic theory has confirmed the original elegant solution.  Today over a glass of Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban, Rabbi Oud Ramonides offers Stilten a complex solution for using the discarded branches of the Great Elm at Seven Dials.