Instructor: Prof. Lincoln Lu
Office: LC 400I, email: lu@math.sc.edu
Office hours: TTh 12:00PM-- 1:00PM or by appointment.
Lecture time: TTh 1:15PM-2:30PM at LC 310
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture and homework
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Instructor: Prof. Lincoln Lu Office: LC 400I, email: lu@math.sc.edu Office hours: TTh 12:00PM-- 1:00PM or by appointment. Lecture time: TTh 1:15PM-2:30PM at LC 310 Credit Hours: 3 |
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Lecture and homework
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Prerequisite: MATH 526, MATH 544 OR MATH 574
Textbook: Winning ways for your mathematical plays (vol I), second edition, by Berlekamp, Conway, and Guy published by A K Peters, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Learning outcomes: Through this course, students learn the winning strategy in in certain combinatorial games such as Nim, Hackenbush, and Domineering. They will learn equalities and inequalities among games, Sprague-Grundy theory of impartial games, games which are numbers. We shall cover most parts of the textbook and some supplemental material.
Homework: Homework will be assigned roughly every other week and should be completed and be collected by next Wednesday.
Reading: Reading the sections of the textbook corresponding to the assigned homework exercises is considered part of the homework assignment.
Exams: There will be two exams given during lecture time. Exam 1 is scheduled on Tuesday (March 14, 2017). It covers Chapter 1-3, or note1 and note2.
Final project: There is no final exam for this class. Instead, you will have a final project. Please form a group of two and do only one of the following projects. Each group will write a report of at least 4 pages and make a presentation in the classes.
Grading: The homework is 30%. The first exam is 20%. The second exam is 20%. The final project is 30%. Your final grade is based on the percentage as follows.
Grading Scale
| Grading Scale: | 90-100% A |
76-79% C+ |
60-65% D |
86-89% B+ |
70-75% C |
0-59% F |
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| 80-85% B |
66-69% D+ |
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Peg Solitaire
Rubik's Cube