31/05/2019, 16:00 — 17:00 — Room 6.2.49, Faculty of Sciences of the Universidade de Lisboa
Carlos Santos, CEAFEL
Combinatorial Game Theory: a survey
In the first years of the 20th century the analysis of the game of NIM (by the mathematician Charles L. Bouton) triggered the outburst of a completely new mathematical subject: Combinatorial Game Theory. The aim of this seminar is to give a survey of the development of this mathematical field.