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The games mathematicians play

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Winning Ways, for Your Mathematical Plays..

By Elwyan R. Berelekamp, John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy. Two vols, pp.850. Vol. 1 Games in General, hbk ISBN 0-12-091150-7, pbk ISBN 0-12-091101-9; Vol. 2 Games in Particular, hbk ISBN 0-12-091152-3, pbk ISBN 0-12-091102-7. (Academic: 1982.) Each volume hbk £31.40, $64.50; pbk £10.80, $22.50.

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  1. C. W. Kilmister: is totally incompetent at any of the games mentioned. He has, however, used the material in Conway's earlier book to try to provide a combinatorial reformulation of quantum mechanics.

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Kilmister, C. The games mathematicians play. Nature 297, 247–248 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1038/297247a0

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