In this talk, we introduce Schmidt's game, which in recent years has been
used extensively to prove theorems in number theory. We will contrast
Schmidt's game with the Banach-Mazur game to motivate investigation into
certain set theoretic properties of the game. The central concept of this
talk will be the property of a game that one of the two players has a
winning strategy (determinacy). Under certain strong hypotheses, we present
a proof that the Banach-Mazur game is determined (which has implications
for subsets of the real line, for instance). In light of this proof, we
will examine how Schmidt's game differs and sketch a proof of a partial
result of the determinacy of Schmidt's game.
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