John Horton Conway

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1.		The Symmetries of Things from A K Peters Ltd Price: $73.50 Customer Review: One of the most base concepts of art - symmetry. "The Symmetries of Things" is a guide to this most basic concept showing that even the most basic of things can be beautiful - and addresses why the simplest of patterns mesmerize humankind and the psychological and mathematical importance of symmetry... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften) from Springer Price: $79.20 Customer Review: This book is devoted to the subject of lattice packings. It is an outstanding book with all pages interesting. It acts as a reference on the subjects of lattices. What you will find: --Sphere packings, ie the problem of packing spheres in order to maximize density. --The problem of Kissin... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		On Quaternions and Octonions from AK Peters Price: $31.20 Customer Review: Conway is an excellent mathematician and an extremely lucid author. No criticism should be given to any of his writings. In the case of quaternions (and octonians), a much better, more complete, and more powerful view is achieved by seeing them in the larger setting of geometric algebra. The... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		The Sensual Quadratic Form from The Mathematical Association of America Price: $39.95	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		On Numbers and Games from AK Peters, Ltd. Price: $47.20 Customer Review: This is not a book for mathematical beginners, even though it starts from literally nothing. But readers who have learned enough traditional math to understand the point of set theory and who have a solid grasp of the real number system are in for a wild ride, and will never look at numbers, or... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Vol. 3 from AK Peters Price: $59.00 Customer Review: This is volume four in the series, and it starts with page 801. Do you need to read the first three volumes first? Well, if you want to. The authors would get more royalties if you buy them. Do you need to in order to understand this volume? Generally speaking -- No. Only in a couple of areas might... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		Winning Ways: For Your Mathematical Plays, Volume. 2: Games in Particular from Academic Pr Customer Review: This is volume four in the series, and it starts with page 801. Do you need to read the first three volumes first? Well, if you want to. The authors would get more royalties if you buy them. Do you need to in order to understand this volume? Generally speaking -- No. Only in a couple of areas might... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Vol. 4 from AK Peters Price: $44.10 Customer Review: This is volume four in the series, and it starts with page 801. Do you need to read the first three volumes first? Well, if you want to. The authors would get more royalties if you buy them. Do you need to in order to understand this volume? Generally speaking -- No. Only in a couple of areas might... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.		The Sensual (Quadratic) Form (Carus Mathematical Monographs) from The Mathematical Association of America Customer Review: This book, a compilation of the lectures Conway presented at the Joint Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America in 1991, is a bit overstated in the title. In particular, the inclusion of the word "sensual." While some mathematicians no doubt get a... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		Atlas of Finite Groups: Maximal Subgroups and Ordinary Characters for Simple Groups from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $170.50	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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