28 May
2010
28 May
'10
2:25 p.m.
what did it for me: Gardner. "Mathematical Games." Scientific American, Vol. 241, No 2, pp. 18-24; June, 1976; all about Catalans, trees and Bell numbers. Readable, intriguing, enticing, correct, elegant. Cute pictures too. It was in the personal-computer-stone-age, mind you. W.