MIT OpenCourseWare
The Mathematics in Toys and Games
Art: Detroit Publishing Co., Low Library2, between… · Public domain
- Instructors
- Jing Li, Prof. Erik Demaine, Melissa Gymrek
- Term
- Spring 2010
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 handout · 19 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare ES.268 The Mathematics in Toys and Games, Spring 2010, Jing Li, Prof. Erik Demaine, Melissa Gymrek — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
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- MIT's page format for this item wasn't recognized clearly enough to place it safely. (2 items)
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Lecture Notes
17 files
- ES.268 AI and game search, Course Notes 4 Download
- ES.268 AI and game search, Slides 4 Download
- ES.268 Blackjack/poker, Slides 9 Download
- ES.268 Connect four and additional AI topics, Course Notes 5 Download
- ES.268 Connect four and additional AI topics, Slides 5 Download
- ES.268 Constraint logic, Slides 12 Download
- ES.268 Dynamic programming with impartial games, Course Notes 3 Download
- ES.268 Game of life, Slides 10 Download
- ES.268 NP-completeness, Slides 11 Download
- ES.268 Rubik's cube and group theory, Course Notes 6 Download
- ES.268 Rubik's cube and group theory, Slides 6 Download
- ES.268 Surreal numbers, Course Notes 2 Download
- ES.268 Surreal Numbers, Slides 2 Download
- ES.268 Theory of Impartial Games, Course Notes 1 Download
- ES.268 Theory of Impartial Games, Handout 1 Download
- ES.268 Theory of impartial games, Slides 1 Download
- Markov and Mr. Monopoloy Make Millions Download
Projects
MIT OpenCourseWare, Jing Li, Prof. Erik Demaine, Melissa Gymrek, ES.268 The Mathematics in Toys and Games, Spring 2010.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Spring 2010 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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