Sentences with phrase «mathematical game»

In fact, this kind of mathematical game is a sort of disbelieving sport for me — maybe the opposite of schadenfreude (kind of like the Buddhist concept of mudita, come to think of it).

It's a very mathematical game, and the cards are functionally equivalent to unique 4 - digit base three numbers.

Its contents are a miscellany of mathematical games, puzzles, stories and factoids.

But this isn't just a mathematical game.

The obsession that led to his suddenly upping sticks had begun in the early 1980s as a mathematical game.

But it was his lifelong interest in magic, still his main hobby, that led him to mathematical games.

Physicists showed in 2007 that the equations describing fluids and black holes can be translated back and forth, and playing these mathematical games can help physicists to better understand both systems.

Leonardo da Vinci's notebook the Codex Atlanticus includes page after page of what the artist called «mathematical games».

They can create a probability curve but it's just a mathematical game.

Monckton created a mathematical game called the Eternity puzzle and offered One million pounds to anyone who could solve it.

He also added a reproductive element to the mathematical game, meaning that a win results in a greater number of units with the same characteristics as its parent unit.