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Book Information:
Author:
Elwyn Berlekamp and David Wolfe
Title:
Mathematical Go: Chilling gets the last point
Additional book information:
AK Peters, Wellesley, MA, 1994, xx + 234 pp., US$34.95. ISBN 1-56881-032-6; also in paperback as Mathematical Go endgames: Nightmares for the professional Go player, Ishi Press International, San Jose, London, and Tokyo, US$24.95. ISBN 0-923891-36-6.
[1] E. R. Berlekamp, J. H. Conway, and R. K. Guy, Winning ways for your mathematical plays, Academic Press, London, 1982.
[2] Elwyn Berlekamp and Yonghoan Kim, Where is the "$1,000 Ko"?, Go World 71 (1994), 65-80.
J. H. Conway, On numbers and games, London Mathematical Society Monographs, No. 6, Academic Press [Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers], London-New York, 1976. MR 0450066
David Gale, Mathematical entertainments, Math. Intelligencer 16 (1994), no. 2, 25–31. MR 1270837, DOI 10.1007/BF03024280
[5] Patrick Michael Grundy, Mathematics and games, Eureka 27 (1939), 6-8; reprinted in Eureka 27 (1964), 9-11.
Olof Hanner, Mean play of sums of positional games, Pacific J. Math. 9 (1959), 81–99. MR 104524
John Milnor, Sums of positional games, Contributions to the theory of games, vol. 2, Annals of Mathematics Studies, no. 28, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1953, pp. 291–301. MR 0053474
[8] Roland Percival Sprague, Über mathematische Kampfspiele, Tôhoku Math. J. 41 (1935-36), 438-444.
- [1]
- E. R. Berlekamp, J. H. Conway, and R. K. Guy, Winning ways for your mathematical plays, Academic Press, London, 1982.
- [2]
- Elwyn Berlekamp and Yonghoan Kim, Where is the "$1,000 Ko"?, Go World 71 (1994), 65-80.
- [3]
- J. H. Conway, On numbers and games, Academic Press, London and New York, 1976. MR 0450066 (56:8365)
- [4]
- David Gale, Mathematical entertainments, Math. Intelligencer 16 (1994), 25-29. MR 1270837 (95i:90130)
- [5]
- Patrick Michael Grundy, Mathematics and games, Eureka 27 (1939), 6-8; reprinted in Eureka 27 (1964), 9-11.
- [6]
- Olof Hanner, Mean sums of play of positional games, Pacific J. Math. 9 (1959), 81-99. MR 0104524 (21:3277)
- [7]
- John Milnor, Sums of positional games, Contributions to the Theory of Games, Ann. of Math. Stud., vol. 28, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 1953, pp. 291-301. MR 0053474 (14:779b)
- [8]
- Roland Percival Sprague, Über mathematische Kampfspiele, Tôhoku Math. J. 41 (1935-36), 438-444.
Review Information:
Reviewer:
Richard K. Guy
Reviewer:
Richard J. Nowakowski
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
32 (1995), 437-441
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1995-00601-4
