Board Games

Throughout The History And Multidimensional Spaces

By: Jorma Kyppo

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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.

Contents:

Introduction
Game Theory and N-Person Games
Tiling in Different Dimensions
The History and Prehistory of Chess
Later Chess Variations
Basic Model of Universal Chess
Extensions of Universal Chess
Symmetric N-person Chess
Concluding Remarks
Summary

Readership: Researchers in combinatorics, complex manifolds and topology, game theory.Board Games;Chess;Dimensions;Golden Section;Fibonacci Numbers;Pascal's Triangle;Combinatorics;Pseudo-Holes0Key Features:

Versatility, inspiration, innovations: From history to mathematics and game theory
The book offers ten different new hypotheses related to both, the mathematics and history