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Does Every Game have a Winner?

Why can a computer always win in tic-tac-toe? Is it true for games in general?

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5 Holiday Math Puzzles

Happy Holidays! Here are a couple Christmas and Hanukkah puzzles just for you: The 2n-Menorah: In an alternate universe, instead of the flask in the temple lasting for just 8 days, it lasted for 2n days for a positive integer n. Thus, Hanukkah in that universe is celebrated for 2n days, and the menorah has […]

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The Harmonic Series and Friends

A lot of times, math can be deceptive and unexpected A few examples are the Monty Hall problem, the Banach-Tarski paradox, and the Weierstrass function. Today we will look at one of the most famous and classic counterexamples, that is that if a sequence converges to zero, it’s series does not necessarily converge. What does […]

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Stable pairings and how to find them (Gale-Shapley algorithm and also puppies)

From dating apps to matchmaking in video games, and matching computers to the best servers, matching problems have a notable presence in computer science and game theory nowadays. So let’s look at one of this problems, which has a rather simple premise and a surprisingly simple solution. The problem deals with finding stable pairing (say, […]

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Newton’s Method

Let’s look at a very common problem where the use of math is needed, solving equations. We have an expression using some variable x on one side of the ‘=’ sign and another expression using x on the other. We want to find for which values of x the equation holds.

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