When he was in his 20s, Michael Trick, now dean of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, applied similar reasoning to his love life. He figured that people begin dating at 18 and assumed that he would no longer date after 40, and that he’d have a consistent rate of meeting potential partners. Taking 37 percent of this timespan would put him at age 26, at which point he vowed to propose to the first woman he met whom he liked more than all his previous dates. He met Ms. Right, knelt down on one knee, and promptly got rejected. The best-choice problem doesn’t cover cases where opportunities may turn you down. Perhaps it’s best we leave math out of romance.

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