Math wiz who said he had 1 in 285,000 chance of love -- now engaged
Love hurts. To which a logician might reply: "So shouldn't hate feel, really, really good?"
Logic and love have about as intimate a relationship as bread and a calorie-controlled diet.
This, however, didn't stop Peter Backus from attempting to quantify just how great (or small) his chances were of finding that one, true person who can bring meaning to life's absurdity. In 2010, while a tutor at England's University of Warwick, he wrote a research paper called "Why I Don't Have A Girlfriend." Its subtitle will, I know, make several of you swoon: "An application of the Drake Equation to love in the U.K."