In the previous post Fun with Hex, I asserted without proof that the Hex Game will never result a draw. In Jiri Matousek’s An Invitation to Discrete Mathematics, I found an elegant proof for the assertion, which requires only a little bit of elementary graph theory. The idea of the proof can also prove Sperner’s… Continue reading Fun with Hex (Cont.)
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Fun with Hex
According to the folklore, The Hex game was invented by the Danish mathematician Piet Hein, who introduced it in 1942 at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was independently re-invented in 1947 by the mathematician John Nash at Princeton University. The rules are really simple. Each player has an allocated color, Red and Blue being conventional.… Continue reading Fun with Hex