The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects : : Research in Games, Graphs, Counting, and Complexity, Volume 2 / / ed. by Jennifer Beineke, Jason Rosenhouse.
The history of mathematics is filled with major breakthroughs resulting from solutions to recreational problems. Problems of interest to gamblers led to the modern theory of probability, for example, and surreal numbers were inspired by the game of Go. Yet even with such groundbreaking findings and...
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