Another Post From the Department of Self-Promotion

Sorry for another post that's all about me, but I received a pleasant surprise today. The Association of American Publishers just gave out their annual PROSE awards. The awards recognize excellence in scholarly publishing in some forty categories. One of those categories is “Popular Science and Mathematics.” The winner in that category? None other than Taking Sudoku Seriously! Yay!

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Congratulations, and well deserved. And it's your blog mate, you're entitled to self promotion (indeed, the cynical amongst us may even say that's the point of blogs).

Yup. I'm happy for you, even if I hardly know the words to express it.

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By san diego huma… (not verified) on 14 Feb 2013 #permalink

Congratulations!!