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MATH 295.00 Combinatorial Games 6 credits
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An introduction to the theory and practice of combinatorial games, which are two-player games in which players take turns, both players have complete information about the state of the game at all times, and there is no chance involved. Topics may include impartial games, a complete solution to nim, nim's relationship with other impartial games, the correspondence between games and numbers, sums of games, birthdays of games, hot games, and thermographs of games. Specific games will be studied as examples of the general theory, possibly including hackenbush, domineering, amazons, chomp, the octal games, and variations of these games.
Prerequisite: Mathematics 236 or instructor permission
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