1st Edition
Game Theory and Recreational Mathematics A Playful Approach to Problem Solving and Inquiry
1. Background 2. Problem Solving 3. Logic and Set Theory 4. Group Theory 5. Combinatorics 6. Graph Theory 7. Combinatorial Game Theory 8. Extended Project Briefs 9. Selected Solutions
Biography
Peter Rowlett has taught undergraduate mathematics for 20 years. He currently teaches a range of topics at Sheffield Hallam University including game theory and recreational mathematics, introduction to problem solving and proof, and history of mathematics. He has held various roles in the mathematical community, including as Vice President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and Deputy Chair of the Mathematics, Statistics and OR Advisory Group at the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. He is currently Editor of The Mathematical Gazette, a teaching association journal which has published mathematical content since 1894, Co-Chair of a Topic Study Group on recreational mathematics for the 16th International Congress of Mathematics, and a member of the steering group of the MathsJam international recreational mathematics network. He has written more than 200 articles, mostly educational research but also on history of mathematics in Nature and a regular column ‘Mathematics of Life’ in New Scientist. He has written puzzles for New Scientist, The Sunday Times, and The Guardian.
Alexander Corner is a Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and has taught undergraduate mathematics for 15 years. He is an active researcher in the fields of mathematics education, with interests in student identity and understanding, and category theory, where he studies monoidal categories, operads, and higher categories. He is currently the local representative for the London Mathematical Society at Sheffield Hallam University. A large amount of his teaching is delivered to students on computing degrees, involving a substantial amount of discrete mathematics and cryptography.
