Board Games: Throughout the History and Multidimensional Spaces (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789813233522)

In this richly illustrated book, Dr Jorma Kyppö explores the history of board games dating back to Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China. He provides a description of the evolution and various interpretations of chess. Furthermore, the book offers the study of the old Celtic and Viking board games and the old Hawaiian board game Konane, as well as a new hypothesis about the interpretation of the famous Cretan Phaistos Disk. Descriptions of several chess variations, including some highlights of the game theory and tiling in different dimensions, are followed by a multidimensional symmetrical n-person strategy game model, based on chess. Final chapter (Concluding remarks) offers the new generalizations of the Euler-Poincare's Characteristic, Pi and Fibonacci sequence.

Author: Jorma Kyppo
ISBN-10: 9813233524
ISBN-13: 9789813233522
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 07/22/2019
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d