Re: Hello ...

On 24/06/2025 19:23, David Entwistle wrote:

Hello,
 I thought it was high-time I should introduce myself...
 Hello...
 My name is David, and I'm a puzzler...
 I was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, in June 1959.
 I was fortunate to be university-educated (fully funded by the UK
Government), at UMIST, in Manchester. I have a degree in Electrical and
Electronic Engineering. I think that experience would have been a more
fruitful one if I had delayed university entry for a few years, and worked
first, for a couple of years.
 I'm not particularly good with people - I tend to favour numbers and
mathematics to chatting about TV and fashion, but I'll try to look
interested, under most circumstances...
 Favourite books: "Elementary Analysis" by Dakin and Porter, "Further
Elementary Analysis" by Porter, "Amusements in Mathematics" by Henry
Ernest Dudeney. More recently, "The Book of Numbers" by John H. Conway and
Richard K. Guy (more of that later, I suspect).
 Favourite music: Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata. Bach Busoni, Chaconne.
 That's all from me. Long may you puzzle.
 Best wishes.
 

Hi David, welcome to rec.puzzles!
I have Conway et al's "Winning Ways" which was lots of fun, but hadn't heard of "The Book of Numbers", so I'll definitely look out for that one.  (I have a maths background, and for a while I was thinking I might actually have the book somewhere, but after searching around I realised I'd confused it with "God Invented the Integers" (Stephen Hawking) which is also about numbers.  I'm hoping the Conway/Guy book will turn out to be a bit lighter than the Hawking's!)
Regards,
Mike.