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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
2021 Sept review in Notices of the AMS vol 68 (8) (thank you Chris J. Sangwin)
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