STA 4618, Linear Programming & Game Theory

Instructor: Fred Richman, S&E 224, e-mail: richman@fau.edu, Office Hours: 12:00-12:50 MWF.
Text:
- The textbook for the game-theory part of the course is Thomas S. Ferguson, Game theory, electronic text.
- The textbook for the linear-programming part of the course is Thomas S. Ferguson, Linear programming, electronic text.
Tests: There will be a 25-minute test from 10:25 to 10:50 each Friday, except on November 23 (Thanksgiving). There will also be a 50-minute test on Wednesday, November 28. No calculators, no other electronic devices, no books, no notes. No make-up tests will be given.
Grades: The final grade will be based your test grades.

Assignments

Grade Book
Nim is one of the more interesting simple games. You can play it here. This is the misère version, as played in Last year at Marienbad.
Hex is a more complicated game. You can play the 7-by-7 game here, if you have downloaded Java. You can play on other size boards with HeXilla.
The simplex algorithm is the primary tool for doing linear programming. Here is an online implementation.