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Peter Winkler, "Mathematical Puzzles" (A K Peters, 2020)

New Books in Mathematics

CHAPTER

The Parallel Round Robin Tournament

Theory says that there is a design for such a tournament. There's a clever way to do it, and you could see this clever way if you try it with four people or six people,. And then you say, oh, wait a minute, I can see a way to do this now. It was an open problem for a century or so. A brilliant young Hungarian not so many years ago proved the theorem.

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