Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays (Academic Press, 1982) by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway, and Richard K. Guy is a compendium of information...
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a play available to one player be available to both is relaxed. Their results were published in their book Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays in...
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Phutball (category Mathematical games)
Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, and Richard K. Guy's Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays. Phutball is played on the intersections of a 19×15 grid using one...
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Elwyn Berlekamp (category Fellows of the American Mathematical Society)
other close associates of Gardner, to co-author the book Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays, leading to his recognition as one of the founders of combinatorial...
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Hackenbush (category Mathematical games)
with its use in the books On Numbers and Games and Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays by some of the founders of the field. In particular Blue-Red...
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unconditional first-player win. Star, as defined by John Conway in Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays, is a value, but not a number in the traditional sense...
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Richard K. Guy (category Mathematics popularizers)
theory. He is best known for co-authorship (with John Conway and Elwyn Berlekamp) of Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays and authorship of Unsolved...
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Gardner in the September 1958 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. The book Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays also contains a detailed...
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Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-091101-1. Revised and reprinted as Berlekamp, Elwyn R. (2004) [2001]. Winning...
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Black Path Game (category Mathematical games)
Brick) is a two-player board game described and analysed in Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays. It was invented by Larry Black in 1960. It has also been...
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