Graduate Student Seminar: A card game and a strategy via the Catalan numbers

Graduate Student Seminars
  • Yutong Chen
Apr 25, 2017
12:30 pm
Fine Hall 214

We will describe a card game with extremely simple rules, but the path to winning is not so simple. We devise a strategy with the help of the Catalan numbers. If time allows, we will look at some other problems where the Catalan numbers show up.