John H. Conway

The Book of Numbers

"...the great feature of the book is that anyone can read it without excessive head scratching...You'll find plenty here to keep you occupied, amused,...

On Numbers and Games

ONAG, as the book is commonly known, is one of those rare publications that sprang to life in a moment of creative energy and has remained influential...

Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Volume 2

In the quarter of a century since three mathematicians and game theorists collaborated to create Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, the book ha...

Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups

The main themes. This book is mainly concerned with the problem of packing spheres in Euclidean space of dimensions 1,2,3,4,5, . . . . Given a large n...

The Symmetries of Things

Start with a single shape. Repeat it in some way—translation, reflection over a line, rotation around a point—and you have created symmetry. Symme...

Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Volume 3

In the quarter of a century since three mathematicians and game theorists collaborated to create Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, the book ha...

Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays

Volume 1

This classic on games and how to play them intelligently is being re-issued in a new, four volume edition. This book has laid the foundation to a math...

On Quaternions and Octonions

This book investigates the geometry of quaternion and octonion algebras. Following a comprehensive historical introduction, the book illuminates the s...

Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups

The main themes. This book is mainly concerned with the problem of packing spheres in Euclidean space of dimensions 1,2,3,4,5, . . . . Given a large n...

The Triangle Book

With the advent of computer programs such as SketchPad, many high school students and amateur mathematicians are rediscovering interesting facts and t...

The sensual (quadratic) form

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Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Volume 3

In the quarter of a century since three mathematicians and game theorists collaborated to create Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, the book ha...

Winning ways for your mathematical plays. 2. Games in particular

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