Blet

In 2018 I was invited by my former ICTP Diploma student Manjil P. Saikia to give a mini-course at the University of Vienna. I also gave then a general talk about the puzzle Blet. Later in the year I gave a Basic Notions Seminar on the puzzle at ICTP. As an experiment I got the transcript of the talk from youtube and then ran it through ChatGPT. After some light editing here is the result.

September 25, 2014

Impartial Games

I gave a the kick-off Basic Notions talk at ICTP in 2014 on Impartial Games (one of the topics of the course Math, Puzzles and Computers). I expected students in the class to connect to puzzles and eventually to the corresponding mathematics through a chilhood experience. It is certainly what happened to me while preparing the lectures. I have a somewhat vague but powerful memory of being introduced to the standard version of the game of Nim at an early age.