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Book SynopsisJohn Horton Conway's unique approach to quadratic forms was the subject of the Hedrick Lectures that he gave in August of 1991 at the Joint Meetings of the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society in Orono, Maine. This book presents the substance of those lectures.
Trade ReviewAbsolutely fascinating from beginning to end."" - Ian Stewart,
New Scientist""This is a book rich in ideas. They seem to burst forth from almost every page … I suspect that the author's hope that ""even the experts will find some new enlightenment here"" will be realized."" -
The Mathematics Teacher""A very original book … The lectures are self-contained for the graduate reader … full of new ideas, and thus of real interest also to experts."" -
Zentralblatt fur Mathematik
