For a person of my age a certain level of proficiency with a pool queue is said to be a sure sign
of a misspent youth. These days a misspent youth would be signalled by a similar level of
proficiency with a computer game pad. We can take advantage of the student’s intense interest in
computer games because of the wealth of mathematics that is used in the development of these
games. The development of the mathematics curricula for the Bachelor of Computer Science
(Games Technology) degree shows that although much of the needed mathematics is quite
fundamental in nature.
There are of course many areas of intersection between Computer Games and Mathematics
that I have not touched upon, artificial intelligence paradigms such as neural nets and genetic
algorithms are to be found in Game intelligence. There are also a number of mathematical skills
that are developed in the secondary schools that are found in Games. Intersections of lines and
planes