Mathematical Recreations and Essays

✍ Scribed by W. W. Rouse Ball

• Book ID: 127455848
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 4 MB
• Edition: Macmillan
• Category: Library
• ISBN-13: 9781444655001
• ASIN: B003I7TLXE

✦ Synopsis

1892. This book contains descriptions of various problems of the kind usually termed Mathematical Recreations and a few Essays on some analogous questions. Contents: Arithmetical Recreations; Geometrical Recreations; Mechanical Recreations; Chessboard Recreations; Magic Squares; Bees and Their Cells; Unicursal Problems; Kirkman's School-Girls Problem; Miscellaneous Problems; Calculating Prodigies; Cryptographs and Ciphers; String Figures; and Three Classical Geometrical Problems.