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about
sometime around 1990 Ryan thought about writing a book on Hex … with Bjarne's help, he finally finished: thanks Bjarne!
news and reviews
2021 January review in AMS MathSciNet (thank you John J. Watkins)
2019 October 7 mentioned in
Computer Chess and Games Online (thank you Ingo Althöfer)
fall 2019, reviewed in CHOICE
2019 June math author of the month CRC Press
2019 May 5 in MAA Reviews (thank you Mark Hunacek)
2019 March 15 get perplexed with some games of hex by Oliver Roeder at data politics website 538 solutions
events (book tour)
2022 June 3-5 Banff CAN Hex, what next? at Alberta-Montana Combinatorics and Algorithms Day at BIRS (originally scheduled BIRS 20w2245)
2021 May 26 2021 (online) Let's Play Hex (password C2a0n2a1DAM) at CanaDAM 2021
2019 Sept 2-4 Grenoble FRA Unsung Hex heroes at Tribute to Frédéric Maffray
2019 August 6 Schaeffergarden Copenhagen DEN (Bjarne) Hex, the full story NORCOM 2019
2019 June 8 Regina CAN searching for winning Hex strategies at CanMathSoc Summer
2019 May 31) Vancouver CAN a 76-year-old lecture at CANADAM 2019
2019 May 7 Bologna IT (Bjarne) Hex, the full story at Board Game Colloquium XXII
2019 Mar 13 Edmonton CAN a smart move: AI and strategy games
2019 Feb 20 London UK solving 10x10 Hex
2019 Feb 18 Oxford UK a beautiful game from the war
2018 Dec 8 Vancouver BC A Hex History Mystery: Who Posed the Puzzles? at CMS Winter Mtg 2018
video
Hex: a beautiful game from the war (talk starts 4:51)
buy the book
Audreys Books in Edmonton
hex boards
hex paper hex dots 4x4-to-11x11 11x11 (A3 paper) 14x14 (A3 paper) handout
Jeu de Hex 32-page intro (French), 200 stones, cardboard boards 9x9, 11x11, 14x14, 19x19
errata
page xvii Tiedermann => Tiedemann
page 15 A The proof => The proof
page 65, 66, 92 Puzzle 18 => Puzzle 26
page 90 Jens Lindhard's siblings Sten (born 1908), Vibeke (1910), Jytte (1911) and Bodil (1912). Jens (1922) also had a sister Annelise (1918).
contact
For media enquiries, to request a talk, or for questions about the book, please email Ryan