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Book Information
Author(s):
Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy
Title:
Winning ways for your mathematical plays
Additional book information:
Academic Press, London, 1982, vol. 1, Games in general, vol. 2, Games in particular, xxxii + 861 pp., $22.50 P/B, $64.50 H/B
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- R. A. Epstein, Theory of gambling and statistical logic, Academic Press, New York and London, 1967. MR 446535
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- S. W. Golomb, A mathematical investigation of games of "take-away", J. Combinatorial Theory 1 (1966), 443-458. MR 209015
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- P. M. Grundy, Mathematics and games, Eureka 2 (1939), 6-8.
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- J. von Neumann and O. Morgenstern, The theory of games and economic behavior, Princeton, 1944. MR 11937
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- R. P. Sprague, Über mathematische Kampfspiele, Tôhoku Math. J. 41 (1935-36), 438-444.
Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Solomon W.
Golomb
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
8
(1983),
108-111.
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15098-X
PII:
S 0273-0979(1983)15098-X
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