ABSTRACT

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

chapter Chapter 1|8 pages

15 Puzzle

A Tile Matching Game That Is Difficult Even for Computers

chapter Chapter 2|9 pages

Peg Solitaire

Jumping Game Where We Meet Algebra

chapter Chapter 3|6 pages

Chomp Game

Avoid a Poisoned Chocolate

chapter Chapter 4|8 pages

Super Tic-Tac-Toe

Stone Game over a Donut

chapter Chapter 5|6 pages

Mastermind

A Cryptographic Game

chapter Chapter 6|8 pages

Ramsey Theory and Sim Game

Don't Draw a Red Triangle

chapter Chapter 7|7 pages

Nine Men's Morris

Three Soldiers Side by Side

chapter Chapter 8|7 pages

The Game of Quatrainment

Flip Neighbor Stones

chapter Chapter 9|9 pages

n-Queens Game and Puzzle

Playing Chess Only with Queens

chapter Chapter 10|6 pages

Light Out

Turn Off Lights by Linear Equations

chapter Chapter 11|6 pages

1258 Board Game

Magic Square and Orthogonal Latin Square

chapter Chapter 12|9 pages

Switching Game

Shannon's Network Game

chapter Chapter 13|7 pages

Dots and Boxes

Occupy More Boxes

chapter Chapter 14|7 pages

Matricking

Factorization and Cube Net Game

chapter Chapter 15|6 pages

SET Game

Steiner Triple System Game

chapter Chapter 16|6 pages

Dobble Game

Finite Projective Plane Game

chapter Chapter 17|9 pages

Find-a-Best-Friend Game

A Game of the Perfect Hamming Code