Mathematical Recreations
Mathematical Recreations Ranging from ancient Greek and Roman problems to the most modern applications of special mathematical techniques for amusement, this popular volume contains material to…
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Mathematical Recreations
Ranging from ancient Greek and Roman problems to the most modern applications of special mathematical techniques for amusement, this popular volume contains material to delight both beginners and advanced mathematicians. Other problems are based on "mathematics without numbers," geometry, topology, the calendar, arithmetic, and the mathematics of chess moves. Its 250 lively puzzles, problems, situations, and demonstrations of recreational mathematics feature full solutions and analyses.Fifty-seven highly unusual historic problems are derived from ancient Greek, medieval European, Arabic, and Hindu sources.
More than forty pages are devoted to magic squares, and the concluding Fifty pages comprise numerical pastimes built out of figurate numbers, Mersenne numbers, Fermat numbers, cyclic numbers, automorphic numbers, and prime numbers; probability problems are also fully analyzed.