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The "unity of combinatorics" that Richard Guy and Bud Brown have chosen to give an exposition of is the myriad connections that exist between multiple areas within the field; areas they both love. Richard's interests spanned number theory, geometry, recreational mathematics, graph theory, combinatorics, and a field he helped to invent: combinatorial game theory. In early August 2015, at the start of a New York city trip for a conference at the Museum of Mathematics, Richard and his I Winning Ways i coauthors Berlekamp and Conway got to spend time with Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. Richard Guy and Ezra (Bud) Brown have produced a beautiful Carus Monograph in line with the original goals of the series, namely, to be accessible "not only to mathematicians, but to scientific workers and others with a modest mathematical background.". [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Triple Systems" by Charles J. Colbourn and Alexander Rosa.