Winning Mathematical Plays (J-term 1998)

MC-19: Winning Mathematical Plays

A J-term course about games

Helpful information

Instructor: David Wolfe

Directions for printing .ps files

Links:

A Java Dots & Boxes program.

Another Java Dots & Boxes program.

A Java Turn-a-block program.

Jeff Erickson's web page on combinatorial games

Aviezri Fraenkel's combinatorial games bibliography (postscript file)

Unsolved Problems in Combinatorial Games by Richard Guy (postscript file)

Handouts:

Course syllabus

Top-down induction

5x5 Dots and boxes boards

8x8 Domineering boards

Homeworks:

Set 1, solution

Set 2: page 1, page 2. Solution: page 1, page 2

Set 3, solution

Set 4, solution

Set 5, solution

Set 6, solution

Set 7, solution

Set 8, solution

Set 9, solution

Set 10, solution

Set 11, solution

Set 12, solution