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Book Information
Author(s):
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
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- Elwyn Berlekamp and Yonghoan Kim, Where is the "$1,000 Ko"?, Go World 71 (1994), 65-80.
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- J. H. Conway, On numbers and games, Academic Press, London and New York, 1976. MR 0450066 (56:8365)
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- David Gale, Mathematical entertainments, Math. Intelligencer 16 (1994), 25-29. MR 1270837 (95i:90130)
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- Patrick Michael Grundy, Mathematics and games, Eureka 27 (1939), 6-8; reprinted in Eureka 27 (1964), 9-11.
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- Olof Hanner, Mean sums of play of positional games, Pacific J. Math. 9 (1959), 81-99. MR 0104524 (21:3277)
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- 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)
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Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Richard
K.
Guy
Reviewer(s):
Richard
J.
Nowakowski
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
32
(1995),
437-441.
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-1995-00601-4
PII:
S 0273-0979(1995)00601-4
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