[sci.math] winning ways

colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (10/22/86)

In article <514@aurora.UUCP>, jaw@aurora.UUCP (James A. Woods) writes:

>      The book by Berlekamp (), Conway (), and Guy (), is highly recommended
> for its refreshing style, and merits discussion in the likes of Scientific
> American's Mathematical Recreations.

A year or two ago Academic Press offered a paperback edition, cheap.  If
you hurry they might let you take them up.

(In case you're wondering, the pb edition mentions that Col positions
exist with arbitrarily large denominators.)


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