La vuelta al mundo en ochenta juegos

A fondness for games is a fundamental human trait: games—which offer an opportunity to view the world in mathematical terms—are as old as civilization itself, and the same holds true for mathematics, whose wondrous universal language underpins most games. In these pages, renowned mathematician and essayist Marcus du Sautoy invites the reader to journey through world history via eighty games—ranging from the most popular to the most obscure—not only to discover their origins and unravel the fascinating mechanisms behind them, but also to understand them as valuable cultural expressions of the societies that gave rise to them, and whose worldviews they undoubtedly reflect.