Rook Polynomials: Chess for Scheduling Solutions

You can actually use a chessboard to solve your messiest scheduling nightmares. It’s called Rook

Polynomials and it is a total cheat code for combinatorics. Imagine you are assigning jobs but

certain people are totally banned from specific tasks. Instead of crying over a spreadsheet,

you map the forbidden spots onto a grid. You place rooks on the bad squares so they don't attack

each other. This creates a polynomial equation that spits out the exact number of valid arrangements.

It’s basically using chess strategies to organize chaos. Who knew a board game was actually

high-level discrete math.