Mathematics from Fun & Fun from Mathematics: An Informal Autobiographical History of Combinatorial Games

Richard K. Guy
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Richard K. Guy: University of Calgary, Mathematics and Statistics Department

A chapter in PAUL HALMOS Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics, 1991, pp 287-295 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Perhaps I’ve never done any serious mathematics. Perhaps there isn’t any serious mathematics. The subject of combinatorics is only slowly acquiring respectability and combinatorial games will clearly take longer than the rest of combinatorics.

Keywords: Impossible Object; Normal Play; Combinatorial Game; Misere Analysis; Chess Problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-0967-6_30

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