Board Games
Throughout the History and Multidimensional Spaces
Jorma Kyppö
- 344 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Board Games
Throughout the History and Multidimensional Spaces
Jorma Kyppö
About This Book
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-Holes0 Key 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