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Everyone I’ve told this to agrees that this is a funny story.
But I might do that somewhere else. And maybe I did do that somewhere else. Ignore this footnote.
Castle Books 1969, Pantheon 1982, and now available through Dover Publications.
I will use these colors for all the games. They aren’t always necessary, but they make the progress of the games easier to follow.
Pantheon Books, 1975.
Invented independently by Piet Hein and John Nash.
This is not a carefully constructed example. I shuffled the cards and dealt them. This is real.
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This is a column about the mathematical structures that give us pleasure. Usefulness is irrelevant. Significance, depth, even truth are optional. If something appears in this column, it’s because it’s intriguing, or lovely, or just fun. Moreover, it is so intended.
Jim Henle, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Burton Hall, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA. e-mail: pleasingmath@gmail.com
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Henle, J. Mathematical Treasures from Sid Sackson. Math Intelligencer 41, 71–77 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-018-9855-x
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