Book Review: Mathematical Go: Chilling gets the last point
Richard K. Guy, Richard J. Nowakowski · Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society · 1995
Last July, at the Combinatorial Games Workshop in Berkeley, David Blackwell suggested that most of mathematics may be chaotic, and that it is only the small part where we recognize patterns that we actually call mathematics.Combinatorial game theory tends to foster such a view.Are games with complete information and no chance moves of little interest because there are pure winning strategies?On the contrary, when we come to analyze even the simplest of such games, we often run into regions of complete chaos.David Gale wrote in [4] that he had barely scratched the surface of combinatorial game theory, but