Simplicity and Complexity in Games of the Intellect

“This is a timely book. In an age of specialization—a tendency that bewilders most citizens, and in the long run threatens intellectual activity in our civilization—Slobodkin is able to write about the connections between science, art, games, and dining in an important and entertaining way. I think it will be a classic.”—Daniel B. Botkin, University of California, Santa Barbara