A. K. Dewdney [1941-] ('Kee' to his friends) is a mathematician, most famous for having written a column for ScientificAmerican called ComputerRecreations, now collected in several volumes.

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/akd/

He's done other books, including ThePlaniverse and ArmchairUniverse, and edited a newsletter called Algorithm.

He invented CoreWars.

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He also wrote ThePlaniverse, currently my favorite book. It's inspired me to look into his other books, so I've ordered ArmchairUniverse from amazon.com.

-- NickBensema

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