Lecture to Explore Mathematics of Chess Moves
Jan. 27, 2009
Educator and former chess champion Dr. Alexey Root will discuss how the game illustrates mathematical concepts at a UT Dallas public lecture.
The program is scheduled for 2 p.m. for Saturday, Jan. 31, in room 2.410 of the Engineering and Computer Sciences Building (South) at UT Dallas.
As part of the presentation, participants will try activities from Root’s books, including the famous “eight-queens problem,” which illustrates the mathematical concept of domination, a central idea in graph theory.
Root has been a tournament chess player since age 9 and won the U.S. women’s championship in 1989. She is a senior lecturer at UT Dallas and was the associate director of the UT Dallas Chess Program from 1999 to 2003.
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Thank you for posting this.
Very interesting. Wish I could make it for the lecture.