The book Around the World in 80 Games by Marcus du Sautoy.

[i]The Math Behind the Best Games[/i]

In Around the World in 80 Games, which spans thousands of years and many oceans, continents, lands and cultures, Marcus du Sautoy explores in an accessible and lively way how mathematics and games have always been strongly intertwined.

For as long as there have been humans, we have been playing games with each other, and for almost as long we have been exploring and discovering mathematics. Du Sautoy shows how we gained our first mathematical insights through play, how knowledge of mathematics can help us become better at games, and how both mathematics and games are an essential part of human psychology and culture.

During this adventurous journey through the 80 best games in the world, you will not only learn how they are played, but also how these games and the mathematics behind them have shaped us into who we are.

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