My dad is a professor of mathematics at UF. I asked him some questions about prediction market math, and he was a bit confused about how such markets worked and what the point of them is. He also seemed a bit put-off by Bayesian approaches to probability and their application to real-world descisions.

So I'm sending him an email with some more information about this area. So far, here's what it contains:

Will he find it interesting enough to spend more than just a few minutes looking into the subject?

Feel free to suggest other resources I can include. He'd likely be most interested in things that touch on the intersection of prediction markets with game theory or other areas of more traditional math. He would likely not be interested in anything super technical about exact market mechanisms, like DPM vs. CFMM or whatever.

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