An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind the games we love and why we love to play them.
Where should you move first in Connect 4?
What is the best property in Monopoly?
And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors?
Spanning millennia, oceans and continents, countries and cultures, "Around the World in 80 Games" gleefully explores how mathematics and games have always been deeply intertwined. Marcus du Sautoy investigates how games provided the first opportunities for deep mathematical insight into the world, how understanding maths can help us play games better, and how both maths and games are integral to human psychology and culture.
Around the World in 80 Games : A Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the Greatest Games (s)
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An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind the games we love and why we love to play them.
Where should you move first in Connect 4?
What is the best property in Monopoly?
And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors?
Spanning millennia, oceans and continents, countries and cultures, "Around the World in 80 Games" gleefully explores how mathematics and games have always been deeply intertwined. Marcus du Sautoy investigates how games provided the first opportunities for deep mathematical insight into the world, how understanding maths can help us play games better, and how both maths and games are integral to human psychology and culture.
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- Author: Marcus du Sautoy
- Language: Angļu valoda
- Year of publication: 2024
- Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Cover type: Soft cover
- Number of pages: 384
- product.Svars: 0.334 kg
- ISBN code: 9780008525958
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