Contact information
Name:
C. Jayne Trent
Phone:
6103305267
Email:
TRENTJ@LAFAYETTE.EDU
Categories:
When:
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 12:20pm - 1:10pm
Where:
Pardee 217
Presenter:
Lauren Rose, Bard College
Price:
Free & there will be pizza!
Abstract: SET is a card game where a card contains 1, 2 or 3 objects, each with the same color, shape, and shading.
SET has many interesting mathematical properties. To explore these properties, we can assign numbers to each state. For example, if diamond/red/empty/1 =1, oval/green/shaded//2 = 2, and squiggle/purple/solid/3 = 3, then the card (red, oval, solid, 3) becomes (1,2,3,3). We can now think of a card as a list of 4 numbers, and use this to derive several mathematical properties of SET. Next, we will introduce a variation of SET called SuperSET. We will show that with certain modifications the same mathematical properties hold in this new game.
Sponsored by:
Department of Mathematics