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Ryan B. Hayward | Bjarne Toft

Hex

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Big Game
Black Wins
Board Size Increases
Brouwer’s Fixed Point Theorem
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=PBB
Category=PBCD
Category=PBH
Category=PBK
Category=PBP
Category=PBUD
Category=PBW
Category=WDMG
Cell Set
Chance Element
Clique Size
Combinatorics
COP=United Kingdom
Defensive Strategy
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Dotted Cell
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Game Board
Graph Theory
Hex Board
Language_English
Martin Gardner
MCTS
MIT Faculty
Niels Bohr’s Institute
PA=Available
Parker Brothers
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
Puzzle Sheets
Side Connections
softlaunch
Strategy
Toric Ring
Typical Continuation
Vice Versa
Virtual Connection
Weak Trap
White Cell
Winning Strategy

Product details

  • ISBN 9780367144227
  • Weight: 484g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Jan 2019
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Description

Hex: The Full Story is for anyone - hobbyist, professional, student, teacher - who enjoys board games, game theory, discrete math, computing, or history. hex was discovered twice, in 1942 by Piet Hein and again in 1949 by John F. nash. How did this happen? Who created the puzzle for Hein's Danish newspaper column? How are Martin Gardner, David Gale, Claude Shannon, and Claude Berge involved? What is the secret to playing Hex well? The answers are inside...

Features

  • New documents on Hein's creation of Hex, the complete set of Danish puzzles, and the identity of their composer
  • Chapters on Gale's game Bridg-it, the game Rex, computer Hex, open Hex problems, and more
  • Dozens of new puzzles and solutions
  • Study guide for Hex players
  • Supplemenetary text for a course in game theory, discrete math, computer science, or science history
About Bjarne Toft | Ryan B. Hayward

Ryan B. Hayward is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Bjarne Toft is Professor Emeritus at the Univeristy of Southern Denmark.