Hex: The Full Story

Hex: The Full Story
ISBN-10
0429629338
ISBN-13
9780429629334
Series
Hex
Category
Mathematics
Pages
298
Language
English
Published
2019-01-30
Publisher
CRC Press
Authors
Bjarne Toft, Ryan B. Hayward

Description

Hex is the subject of books by Martin Gardner and Cameron Browne. Hex theory touches on graph theory, game theory and combinatorial game theory, with elegant proofs that the game has no draws and that the first player can win. From machines built by Claude Shannon to agents using Monte Carlo Tree Search, Hex is often used in the study of artificial intelligence. Written for a wide audience, this is the full story of Hex, inside and out, with all its twists and turns: Hein’s creation, Lindhard’s puzzles, Nash’s proofs, Gale’s Bridg-it, the game of Rex, Shannon’s machines, Bridg-it’s fall, Hex’s resilience, Hex theory, the hunt for winning strategies, and the rise of Hexbots.

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