Around the world in eighty games : from tarot to tic-tac-toe, catan to chutes and ladders, a mathematician unlocks the secrets of the world's greatest games
by Du Sautoy, Marcus (Author)
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"Do you know where you should always move first in Tic Tac Toe? Understand the betting cube in backgammon? Want to know the best property in Monopoly? Did you know that the African game Mancala might have led one of its players to make an early approximation of the number pi? Or that the nigh-magica... Full description