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In this lively and entertaining book, Matthew Lane discusses how gamers are engaging with the traveling salesman problem when they play Assassin's Creed, why it is mathematically impossible for Mario to jump through the Mushroom Kingdom in Super Mario Bros., and how The Sims teaches us the mathematical costs of maintaining relationships. He looks at mathematical pursuit problems in classic games like Missile Command and Ms. Pac-Man, and how each time you play Tetris, you're grappling with one of the most famous unsolved problems in all of mathematics and computer science. Along the way, Lane discusses why Family Feud and Pictionary make for ho-hum video games, how realism in video games (or the lack of it) influences learning, what video games can teach us about the mathematics of voting, the mathematics of designing video games, and much more.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Mathematics History of mathematics

• Full title: Power-Up
• Author: Matthew Lane
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780691161518
• ISBN: 0691161518
• ID: 14433311
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 714 g
• Dimensions: 164 × 242 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. May 2017

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