Description
Mathematicians Playing Games explores a wide variety of popular mathematical games, including their historical beginnings and the mathematical theories that underpin them. Its academic level is suitable for high school students and higher, but people of any age or level will find something to entertain them, and something new to learn. It would be a fantastic resource for high school mathematics classrooms or undergraduate mathematics for liberal arts course and belongs on the shelf of anyone with an interest in recreational mathematics.
Features
- Suitable for anyone with an interest in games and mathematics, and could be especially useful to middle and high school students and their teachers
- Includes various exercises for fun for readers
Table of Contents
1. 15 Puzzle: A Tile Matching Game That Is Difficult Even for Computers.
2. Peg Solitaire: Jumping Game Where We Meet Algebra.
3. Chomp Game: Avoid a Poisoned Chocolate.
4. Super Tic-Tac-Toe: Stone Game over a Donut.
5. Mastermind: A Cryptographic Game.
6. Ramsey Theorem and Sim Game: Don’t Draw a Red Triangle.
7. Nine Men’s Morris: Three Soldiers' Side by Side.
8. The Game of Quatrainment: Flip Neighbor Stones.
9. n-Queens Game and Puzzle: Playing Chess Only with Queens.
10. Light Out: Turn Off Lights by Linear Equations.
11. 1258 Board Game: Magic Square and Orthogonal Latin Square.
12. Switching Game: Shannon’s Network Game.
13. Dots and Boxes: Occupy More Boxes.
14. Matricking: Factorization and Cube Net Game.
15. SET Game: Steiner Triple System Game.
16. Dobble Game: Finite Projective Plane Game.
17. Find-a-Best-Friend Game: A Game of the Perfect Hamming Code.
