"Fun From Mathematics, and Mathematics From Fun" will be the title of the 2001 Kieval lecture Nov. 9, hosted by the Department of Mathematics at Cornell University. The speaker will be Richard Guy, emeritus and faculty professor of the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

The talk, an autobiographical history of combinatorial games, will be given at 4 p.m. in Malott Hall, Room 251. The lecture is free and is open to the public. A reception will be held at 3:15 p.m. in the fifth-floor lounge of Malott Hall.

Combinatorics is the branch of math that includes the enumeration of complicated configurations. The speaker has taught math at all levels, from kindergarten to postgraduate study, in Britain, Singapore, India and Canada. He has published more than 250 papers and a dozen books, including Winning Ways with Elwyn Berlekamp and John Conway.

Guy also will deliver a lecture, "Unsolved Problems in Combinatorial Games," aimed at undergraduate and graduate math students, Nov. 12 at 4:30 p.m. in Bache Auditorium of Malott Hall. The lecture is sponsored by the mathematics department's National Science Foundation Vertical Integration in Research and Education grant.

The Kieval lecture is funded through a bequest of the late Harry S. Kieval '36, a professor of mathematics at Humboldt State University who died in 1994.