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Seminar Details

The card game Set

  • Start Date: June 14, 2005
  • Event Start Time: 12:30 PM
  • Event End Time: 1:30 PM
  • Organizers: Christine Agnese
  • Seminar Series: REU Seminar
  • Presenter(s): Diane Maclagan - Rutgers University
  • Event Location: CoRE 301
  • Abstract: SET is an extremely addictive, fast-paced card game found in toy stores nationwide. Although children often beat adults, the game has a rich mathematical structure linking it to the combinatorics of finite affine and projective spaces and the theory of error-correcting codes. In this talk I will introduce this mathematics behind SET. I won't assume familiarity with the game, but anyone wanting to be more prepared could look at the game's webpage: http://www.setgame.com/.