Mathematical gameMathematical games include many topics which are a part of recreational mathematics, but can also cover topics such as the mathematics of games, and playing games with mathematics. As far as two-player games are considered, what distinguishes a mathematical game from ordinary games is the emphasis on mathematical analysis of the game, rather than actually playing it.
Mathematical Games was the title of a long-running column on the subject by Martin Gardner in Scientific American. He inspired several new generations of mathematicians and scientists through his interest in mathematical recreations. Mathematical Games was succeeded by Metamagical Themas, a similarly distinguished but shorter-running column by Douglas Hofstadter.
Mathematics of games
This can be a more serious subject than the name belies. It can include the statistical analysis of Card games to understand and improve play techniques.
Game theory has wide social and military applications for tactical and strategic planning.
Conway's combinatorial game theory and surreal numbers
Mental-skill game A game of mental skill (sometimes called a mind sport) is a game where training of muscles and skill in controlling them offers insignificant advantage, and mental abilities are paramount.
The Mind Sports Organisation promotes the concept that developing excellence in such activities deserves respect similar to that traditionally accorded to sports, in line with the dictum of Plato:
The contestant in mental games must train for battle with just as much care as the athlete.
Online Games Available for immediate use. It typically refers to being connected to the Internet or other remote service. When you connect via modem, you are online after you dial in and log on to your Internet provider with your username and password. When you log off, you are offline. With cable modem and DSL service, you are online all the time.
Peripherals Are Also Online
A peripheral device (terminal, printer, etc.) that is turned on and connected to the computer is also online. For example, if your data are on a disk attached to your computer, the disk and the data are said to be online. If your data are on a removable disk cartridge in your desk drawer, it is offline. A printer can be taken offline by simply pressing the ONLINE, GO or SEL button. The printer is still attached and connected, but is internally cut off from receiving data from the computer. Pressing the button turns it back online.
Online Vs. Batch
In the 1960s and 1970s, the ancient days of computers, systems were designed as either online or batch. Online meant terminals were connected to a central computer, and batch meant entering batches of transactions (from punch cards or tape) on a second or third shift. Other terms, such as realtime and transaction processing evolved from online processing. See also nearline.
Want to Impress Your Friends?
Although truly overkill, it is not incorrect to say that one has an online, realtime, transaction processing system (that is, providing you do). In this day and age of buzzwords, this phrase still sounds pretty high tech. But if you say this at your next cocktail party, watch out. Your friends will start asking you how to get their printers to work right and their programs not to crash. An experienced computer professional, however, will probably just chuckle at the antiquity of the phrase.
Online Online means being connected to the Internet or another similar electronic network, like a bulletin board system. Some companies have "online" in their name, such as America Online. Although it sounds similar, online is not the same as on air. When one is online, one can receive and transmit information, whereas when one is on the air, one is broadcasting television or radio signals.
Some consider certain experiences while online to be taking place in a universe called cyberspace that is distinct from real life, the world of experience when offline. A variety of slang terminology has evolved to describe these cyberspacial experiences. Online also refers to information stored in a computer, whether networked or not, as distinct from media such as paper that are not mechnically searchable.
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