Games Of No Chance 3

Author : Michael H. Albert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521861349
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Games of No Chance 3 written by Michael H. Albert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-29 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating look at combinatorial games, that is, games not involving chance or hidden information, offers updates on standard games such as Go and Hex, on impartial games such as Chomp and Wythoff's Nim, and on aspects of games with infinitesimal values, plus analyses of the complexity of some games and puzzles and surveys on algorithmic game theory, on playing to lose, and on coping with cycles. The volume is rounded out with an up-to-date bibliography by Fraenkel and, for readers eager to get their hands dirty, a list of unsolved problems by Guy and Nowakowski. Highlights include some of Siegel's groundbreaking work on loopy games, the unveiling by Friedman and Landsberg of the use of renormalization to give very intriguing results about Chomp, and Nakamura's "Counting Liberties in Capturing Races of Go." Like its predecessors, this book should be on the shelf of all serious games enthusiasts.

Author : Richard J. Nowakowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107011035
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Games of No Chance 4 written by Richard J. Nowakowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mathematical explanation of misere games, in which losing is the goal.

Author : Urban Larsson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108485804
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Games of No Chance 5 written by Urban Larsson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the state-of-the-art in combinatorial game theory, that is games not involving chance or hidden information.

Author : Richard Nowakowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521808323
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Games of No Chance written by Richard Nowakowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-25 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2003 book provides an analysis of combinatorial games - games not involving chance or hidden information. It contains a fascinating collection of articles by some well-known names in the field, such as Elwyn Berlekamp and John Conway, plus other researchers in mathematics and computer science, together with some top game players. The articles run the gamut from theoretical approaches (infinite games, generalizations of game values, 2-player cellular automata, Alpha-Beta pruning under partial orders) to other games (Amazons, Chomp, Dot-and-Boxes, Go, Chess, Hex). Many of these advances reflect the interplay of the computer science and the mathematics. The book ends with a bibliography by A. Fraenkel and a list of combinatorial game theory problems by R. K. Guy. Like its predecessor, Games of No Chance, this should be on the shelf of all serious combinatorial games enthusiasts.

Author : Richard J. Nowakowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521646529
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Games of No Chance written by Richard J. Nowakowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-13 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Nine-Men Morris, in the hands of perfect players, a win for white or for black - or a draw? Can king, rook, and knight always defeat king and two knights in chess? What can Go players learn from economists? What are nimbers, tinies, switches and minies? This book deals with combinatorial games, that is, games not involving chance or hidden information. Their study is at once old and young: though some games, such as chess, have been analyzed for centuries, the first full analysis of a nontrivial combinatorial game (Nim) only appeared in 1902. The first part of this book will be accessible to anyone, regardless of background: it contains introductory expositions, reports of unusual tournaments, and a fascinating article by John H. Conway on the possibly everlasting contest between an angel and a devil. For those who want to delve more deeply, the book also contains combinatorial studies of chess and Go; reports on computer advances such as the solution of Nine-Men Morris and Pentominoes; and theoretical approaches to such problems as games with many players. If you have read and enjoyed Martin Gardner, or if you like to learn and analyze new games, this book is for you.

Author : Richard J. Nowakowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Games of No Chance written by Richard J. Nowakowski and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerolamo Cardano
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 048680898X
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book on Games of Chance written by Gerolamo Cardano and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics was only one area of interest for Gerolamo Cardano ― the sixteenth-century astrologer, philosopher, and physician was also a prolific author and inveterate gambler. Gambling led Cardano to the study of probability, and he was the first writer to recognize that random events are governed by mathematical laws. Published posthumously in 1663, Cardano's Liber de ludo aleae (Book on Games of Chance) is often considered the major starting point of the study of mathematical probability. The Italian scholar formulated some of the field's basic ideas more than a century before the better-known correspondence of Pascal and Fermat. Although his book had no direct influence on other early thinkers about probability, it remains an important antecedent to later expressions of the science's tenets.

Author : Bruce Landman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110280612
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Combinatorial Number Theory written by Bruce Landman and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains selected refereed papers based on lectures presented at the "Integers Conference 2011", an international conference in combinatorial number theory that was held in Carrollton, Georgia, United States in October 2011. This was the fifth Integers Conference, held bi-annually since 2003. It featured plenary lectures presented by Ken Ono, Carla Savage, Laszlo Szekely, Frank Thorne, and Julia Wolf, along with sixty other research talks. This volume consists of ten refereed articles, which are expanded and revised versions of talks presented at the conference. They represent a broad range of topics in the areas of number theory and combinatorics including multiplicative number theory, additive number theory, game theory, Ramsey theory, enumerative combinatorics, elementary number theory, the theory of partitions, and integer sequences.

Author : David Eisenbud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110714972X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commutative Algebra and Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry written by David Eisenbud and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys fundamental current topics in these two areas of research, emphasising the lively interaction between them. Volume 2 focuses on the most recent research.

Author : Gwyn Bellamy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107129540
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry written by Gwyn Bellamy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the interactions between noncommutative algebra and classical algebraic geometry.