Earlier this week, I was inspired by current events to launch a bold, crazy-sounding series about matching theory and its application to reproductive health. This first installment is a quick social history of the development of matching theory, largely influenced by (and fact-checked against) Lex Scrijver’s encyclopediac Combinatorial Optimization: Polyhedra and Efficiency. His paper “On the history of combinatorial optimization (till 1960)” contains similar information in an easy-to-download form.
On to the story: how social science applications drove the development of matching theory. Continue reading
Healthy Algorithms 