group theory
Posts tagged "group theory"
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Decorating Christmas Trees with Group Theory
Applying Burnside's lemma and Polya's enumeration theorem to quantify the number of patterns I can choose to arrange the baubles on my Christmas tree.
Solving Terni Lapilli: A 2000-Year-Old Game
Applying optimisation and group theory to Terni Lapilli, an ancient version of tic-tac-toe, to model optimal play and learn mathematics I hadn't met before.