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Strategy stealing, the axiom of determinacy, and why it's incompatible with the axiom of choice. #SoME3 Resources to learn more and other interesting notes: _____________________ Chomp: Play online: https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tom/Games/chomp.html Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomp List of known best first moves: https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/mamarim/mamarimhtml/chompc.html Also check out chapter 18 in the book "Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays" Zermelo's Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%27s_theorem_(game_theory) _____________________ The Axiom of Determinacy: Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_determinacy Borel Determinacy Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borel_determinacy_theorem The argument in the video is essentially given as Proposition 28.1 in the book The Higher Infinite by Akihiro Kanamori, but it is stated in more complicated terms. You can also find some discussion of it at this link: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/49709/boolean-prime-ideal-theorem-versus-the-axiom-of-determinacy _____________________ The Axiom of Choice: Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice Banach-Tarski Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox Vsauce Video on Banach-Tarski Paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA Corrections:

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