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Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Volume 4
2nd Edition
In the quarter of a century since three mathematicians and game theorists collaborated to create Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, the book has become the definitive work on the subject of mathematical games. Now carefully revised and broken down into four volumes to accommodate new...
Published March 29th 2004 by A K Peters/CRC Press
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Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Volume 3
2nd Edition
In the quarter of a century since three mathematicians and game theorists collaborated to create Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, the book has become the definitive work on the subject of mathematical games. Now carefully revised and broken down into four volumes to accommodate new...
Published September 9th 2003 by A K Peters/CRC Press
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Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Volume 2
2nd Edition
In the quarter of a century since three mathematicians and game theorists collaborated to create Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, the book has become the definitive work on the subject of mathematical games. Now carefully revised and broken down into four volumes to accommodate new...
Published January 2nd 2003 by A K Peters/CRC Press
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Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays
Volume 1, 2nd Edition
This classic on games and how to play them intelligently is being re-issued in a new, four volume edition. This book has laid the foundation to a mathematical approach to playing games. The wise authors wield witty words, which wangle wonderfully winning ways. In Volume 1, the authors do the Spade...
Published January 15th 2001 by A K Peters/CRC Press
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The Dots and Boxes Game
Sophisticated Child's Play
The game of Dots-and-Boxes, the popular game in which two players take turns connecting an array of dots to form squares, or "boxes" has long been considered merely a child's game. In this book, however, the author reveals the surprising complexity of the game, along with advanced strategies that...
Published July 17th 2000 by A K Peters/CRC Press
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The Mathemagician and Pied Puzzler
A Collection in Tribute to Martin Gardner
This volume comprises an imaginative collection of pieces created in tribute to Martin Gardner. Perhaps best known for writing Scientific American's "Mathematical Games" column for years, Gardner used his personal exuberance and fascination with puzzles and magic to entice a wide range of readers...
Published March 7th 1999 by A K Peters/CRC Press