Bob, Thanks! The game reminds me of the Game of the Life. Marlin -----Original Message----- From: math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Thane Plambeck Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 7:41 PM To: math-fun Subject: [math-fun] nuclear pennies / archimedes codex / indian clerk 1) Nuclear pennies, a game on a semi-infinite strip http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2007/09/arboreal-isomorphisms-from-nuclear.ht ml later on, the blog entry devolves into a discussion of functional programming, Haskell, and monads, but still, interesting 2) I'm enjoying this recent book by Reviel Netz and William Noel, The Archimedes Codex: http://www.amazon.com/Archimedes-Codex-Reviel-Netz/dp/030681580X 3) The recent book by David Leavitt, "The Indian Clerk," a novel about Hardy and Ramanujan, is fun too http://www.amazon.com/Indian-Clerk-Novel-David-Leavitt/dp/1596910402/ -- Thane Plambeck tplambeck@gmail.com http://www.plambeck.org/ehome.htm _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun