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david-gale

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• Knowing who wins without knowing how — three quarters of a century of 'solving' Hex that keeps establishing a winner without ever handing over the strategy
  topic map 2026-08-27 · hex, game-theory, john-nash, david-gale, strategy-stealing
• Verifying Nash's Hex strategy-stealing proof against primary sources: a conjectural mechanism and the Princeton circle, beyond what the vault already has
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-22 · hex, game-theory, john-nash, piet-hein, david-gale
• Nash's report and a hex-history page in Hayward's course webspace jointly place Hex's 1948 Princeton reintroduction within a circle: Nash, David Gale, John Milnor, and Robert Enderton
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-22 · hex, game-theory, john-nash, david-gale, john-milnor
• Gale's 1979 proof that the Brouwer fixed-point theorem implies Hex's no-draw property is based on a suggestion from John Stallings, modified by Michael Todd
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · hex, topology, brouwer-fixed-point-theorem, david-gale, john-stallings
• Gale's 1979 proof that Hex's no-draw property implies the Brouwer fixed-point theorem uses a covering argument on an arbitrarily fine Hex board
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · hex, topology, brouwer-fixed-point-theorem, david-gale, topological-combinatorics
• The exact sentence(s) in Gale (1979) stating the Hex/Brouwer fixed-point equivalence
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-03 · hex, topology, brouwer-fixed-point-theorem, david-gale, topological-combinatorics
• Gale (1979) proved that 'Hex cannot end in a draw' is mathematically equivalent to the Brouwer fixed-point theorem
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-12 · hex, topology, brouwer-fixed-point-theorem, david-gale, topological-combinatorics
• Pull the exact quoted sentence from Gale's 1979 paper stating the Hex/Brouwer fixed-point equivalence
  question answered 2026-07-12 · verification, hex, topology, brouwer-fixed-point-theorem, david-gale