The Secretary problem is quite related to marriage... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem Michael Tr

The Secretary problem is quite related to marriage... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem Michael Trick, a well known Operations Research professor at CMU, wrote about applying it to his own life http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/blog/?p=1392 http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/blog/?p=1392 [Edit:] He assumed we wanted to be married to the best possible spouse by the age of 40. The optimal strategy, given his assumptions, is to date until age 26, and then marry the first person who is the best seen so far. You'll marry the best possible person 1/e fraction of the time.