Requesting Suggestions for a Math Project
 

I'm taking an applied math class styled after Gilbert Strang's course at MIT.

We're required to do a small project for the class (approximately 25 hours of work) using MATLAB as a computational aid. The instructor has provided some example projects, mostly optimization problems in electrical or mechanical networks. I could do something along these lines related to my own research, but if someone could suggest something related to poker or game theory, that might actually be more interesting [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] .

Anyway, I'd appreciate suggestions for project topics.

Re: Requesting Suggestions for a Math Project
 

You could do something similar to Alex Selby's work (use google) - say for strucutured 5-card no-draw poker.

There's plenty of poker-related stuff to do work on. It's unclear how much of it will really work well with engineering problems (which are typically not adverserial) and a bit difficult to pick out what sort of problem will fit into your 25 hour time window.