The Webinar on Mathematics and Games took place on Thursday, May 20th, 2021 from 2 pm until 3 pm, with Dr. Alexander Diaz-Lopez, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Villanova in Pennsylvania, as our invited speaker. This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
The invited speaker started the virtual event by describing how many ways there are to shuffle a deck of 52 cards and analyzing how big this number is. Dr. Alexander Diaz-Lopez then shared what is the most efficient way to run the bases in baseball and what is more likely when playing BINGO: to win with a horizontal line or with a vertical line. The speaker also pointed out how many different sudokus there are and highlighted that there is a lot of mathematics in games, like dominoes, Monopoly and the game of SET.
