Math of Hex

[Zach]

Hi all,

I'm a senior mathematics major at Seattle Pacific University and I'm
doing my senior project on the mathematics of Hex.

What I'm thinking for the project is to start my mathematical model
with a small board let's say 4x4 and then work my way to larger and
larger hex boards.

I'm a little confused as to how I can get access to the article that
are posted in this group. I haven't been given a user name or
password yet.

If anyone has some good links that have concrete mathematics that have
been done in Hex that would be super helpful. I'm trying to avoid
spending money right now but I've been thinking of getting Cameron
Browne's Hex Strategy: Making the right connections book. Would this
be at all helpful or are there more helpful books out there for me.

Any help is good,

Zach

[Yper Cube]

For a start, have you checked the http://www.hexwiki.org/ ?

The discussions at the hex forum at littlegolem might be helpful too (with links or views on playing tactics and strategy): http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/forum/forum2.jsp?forum=50

ypercube

[Yper Cube]

Another excellent page is http://maarup.net/thomas/hex/

[Jean-Manuel Nater]

this is kind of interesting.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15859-f01/www/notes/brouwer-hex.pdf
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Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:05 PM
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Subject: HEX THEORY Math of Hex

[Frederic Maire]

Hi Zach

The book by Cameron Browne contains an exhaustive bibliography (including mathematical papers).
http://www.cameronius.com/

Check also the publications of Ryan Hayward
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~hayward/

There is the classic paper by Vadim Anshelevich available on-line
http://home.earthlink.net/~vanshel/

I like Cameron's books very much, but I have to add the disclaimer that we did some work together!

Regards

Frederic

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[OHex]

There are no secrets in this group -- if you could send that email,
you've got access to everything posted here. It's not much. But
there's a small repository of other things on my OHex server that may
help. Contact me directly for username/pw if you're interested, but if
you have access to a university library you'd probably do very well
following the suggestions others have posted.

++ kevin

[OHex]

On Nov 10, 1:05 pm, Zach <zach.br...@gmail.com> wrote:

Some of the stuff on my theory page is somewhat mathematical. Tom Ace
even contributed his own translation of a German proof that hex is
NP-complete.

Look in http://hex.kosmanor.com/hex/theory.html

++ kevin

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Oops.  That should read PSPACE-complete.

--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD