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100 1  Du Sautoy, Marcus,|eauthor. 
245 10 Around the world in eighty games :|bfrom tarot to tic-tac-
       toe, catan to snakes and ladders, a mathematician unlocks 
       the secrets of the world's greatest games /|cMarcus du 
       Sautoy. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bBasic Books,|c2023. 
300    viii, 369 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "From tarot to tic-tac-toe, catan to chutes and ladders, a
       mathematician unlocks the secrets of the world's greatest 
       games"--Subtitle on dust jacket. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-354) and 
       index. 
520    "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-magical Golden Ratio can help you win at Rock Paper 
       Scissors? Around the World in Eighty Games is a gleeful 
       exploration of games and math, spanning centuries and 
       millennia, oceans and continents, countries and cultures. 
       Renowned mathematician Marcus du Sautoy shows how 
       mathematics and games have always been deeply intertwined:
       how games provided some of the first opportunities for 
       deep mathematical insight into the universe; how 
       understanding math can help us play games better; and how 
       the knowledge and enjoyment of both math and games are 
       integral to human psychology and cultures. But du Sautoy 
       doesn't just look at the games we play; he asks why we 
       play them. For as long as there has been human culture, 
       there have been games. If you look, you can find 12,000-
       year-old dice, game boards carved in church pews and 
       chiseled into the stones of temples, monuments, and tombs.
       And for nearly as long, humans have been exploring and 
       discovering mathematics. Taken together, math and games 
       tell us the story of ourselves"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Games|xMathematics. 
650  0 Games|xPsychological aspects. 
650  0 Mathematical analysis. 
650  0 Problem solving|xMathematical models.