Answers.Body: <p>A simple google search gives plenty of results.</p>
  
  <p>If you have a look at the entry in wikipedia for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Minimax</a> it has mathematical representations as well as some basic pseudocode and tree representations to help grasp the concept.</p>
  
  <p>Proving it would be a matter of going through the regular methods of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_proof" rel="nofollow noreferrer">mathematical proof</a> and would probably be a bit complicated.  It is far easier to discuss this by way of graphs.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I have successfully figured out how the minimax algorithm works for a game like chess, where a game tree is used, and you assign a value to the terminal nodes and propagate that value up the tree.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to represent this algorithm mathematically? If so, how would I go about showing it? </p>
  
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Title: Is there a way of representing the minimax algorithm mathematically?
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ThreadText: # Is there a way of representing the minimax algorithm mathematically?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-10-26)
  
  I have successfully figured out how the minimax algorithm works for a game like chess, where a game tree is used, and you assign a value to the terminal nodes and propagate that value up the tree.
  
  Is there a way to represent this algorithm mathematically? If so, how would I go about showing it?
  
  **Tags:** math, minimax, chess
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2018-10-26. Score: 3
  
  A simple google search gives plenty of results.
  
  If you have a look at the entry in wikipedia for [Minimax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax) it has mathematical representations as well as some basic pseudocode and tree representations to help grasp the concept.
  
  Proving it would be a matter of going through the regular methods of a [mathematical proof](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_proof) and would probably be a bit complicated. It is far easier to discuss this by way of graphs.
  
  
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