Math 152, Winter 2015
APPLICABLE MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

• A chronology of game theory, by Paul Walker.
• Heros
  • Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, 1845-1926
  • Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo, 1871-1953
  • John von Neumann, 1903-1957
  • Oskar Morgensterm, 1902-1976
  • John Nash, 1928-

• Play a game of Nim.
• The Sprague-Grundy function with examples.
• Mathematical games from the website on history of math.
• Research problems on combinatorial games.
• Prisoner's dilemma, play.

• Directed graphs,
• Directed acyclic graphs with applications
• On-line graph theory books
• Levine and Stange, How to make the most of a shared meal: plan the last bite first, Monthly 2012.
• Two articles in the January issue of Science News,
  "Solving imperfect-information games",
  "Head-up limit hold'em poker is solved".
• The book The Professor, the Banker and the Suicide King, The Beal conjecture, link.