Board Games: Throughout the History and Multidimensional Spaces Contributor(s): Kyppo, Jorma (Author) |
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ISBN: 9813233524 ISBN-13: 9789813233522 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Recreations & Games - Mathematics | Game Theory - Mathematics | Combinatorics |
Series: Knots and Everything |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.39 lbs) 344 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In this richly illustrated book, Dr Jorma Kyppö explores the history of board games dating back to Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China. He provides a description of the evolution and various interpretations of chess. Furthermore, the book offers the study of the old Celtic and Viking board games and the old Hawaiian board game Konane, as well as a new hypothesis about the interpretation of the famous Cretan Phaistos Disk. Descriptions of several chess variations, including some highlights of the game theory and tiling in different dimensions, are followed by a multidimensional symmetrical n-person strategy game model, based on chess. Final chapter (Concluding remarks) offers the new generalizations of the Euler-Poincare's Characteristic, Pi and Fibonacci sequence. |