First Year Seminar 191CNS53 - FYS-Puzzles, Games and Proofs

What does it mean to "solve" a puzzle or a game? How do we know that our solution always works? Which games can we always win? We will find some answers to these questions by playing a variety of games from tic-tac-toe to Go and examining riddles involving foxes, chickens, and truth-telling trolls. You will leave this course as a better game player, riddle solver, and also a more mathematical thinker.

First year (Fr or Soph)