Combinatorial Games

Tic-Tac-Toe Theory

By:

Jozsef Beck

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications

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Traditional game theory has been successful at developing strategy in games of incomplete information: when one player knows something that the other does not. But it has little to say about games of complete information, for example, tic-tac-toe, solitaire and hex. The main challenge of combinatorial game theory is to handle combinatorial chaos, where brute force study is impractical. In this comprehensive volume, József Beck shows readers how to escape from the combinatorial chaos via the fake probabilistic method, a game-theoretic adaptation of the probabilistic method in combinatorics. Using this, the author is able to determine the exact results about infinite classes of many games, leading to the discovery of some striking new duality principles. Available for the first time in paperback, it includes a new appendix to address the results that have appeared since the book's original publication.

Author Biography:

József Beck is a Professor in the Mathematics Department of Rutgers University. He has received the Fulkerson Prize for Research in Discrete Mathematics and has written around 100 research publications. He is the co-author, with W. L. Chen, of the pioneering monograph Irregularities of Distribution.

Release date Australia

April 28th, 2011

Author

Jozsef Beck

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises; 170 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

750

Series

Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications

Dimensions

156x234x37

ISBN-13

9780521184755

Product ID

10407239

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