Spring 2007
Instructor: Fernando Rodriguez Villegas
Address: Department of Math, UT Austin, Austin, TX 78712
Phone:
(512) 471-1137
Office:
RLM 9.164
Fax:
512-471-9038
E-mail:
villegas@math.utexas.edu
OFFICE HOURS: T 10:00 - 11:00 (or by appointment)
Some of the topics and puzzles we will discuss are: Nim and related games; Blet (involving group theory); fiver (involving linear algebra over a field of two elements); chinese rings (involving the Gray code); topological puzzles; simulated annealing and other algorithms to model some of the puzzles, etc. There is no text assigned for the class; instead handout notes will be provided covering each topic. Class notes will be posted weekly.