Mathematical Games (15-859D, 21-801), Fall 2022

Professors Alan Frieze and Danny Sleator

This course will present a number of combinatorial games and puzzles, focusing on those for which there exist mathematical techniques for solving them. (The link to a previous instantiation of the course below suggests the kinds of topics we'll be covering.)

Time and Place: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 2:30-3:20 in WEH 8201

Office hours (Frieze): Wednesday, Thursday, 11:00 -- 12: 00AM, WEH6204.

Grading will be fairly informal, and based on homework assignments and class participtation, and class presentation.


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