Mathematical recreations and essays

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Mathematical recreations and essays
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1914
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Mathematical recreations and essays

Author: Ball, W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse), 1850-1925

Year: 1914

Arithmetical recreations.--Geometrical recreations.--Mechanical recreations.--Chessboard recreations.--Magic squares.--Unicursal problems.--Kirkman's school-girls problem.--Miscellaneous problems.--The mathematical tripos.--Three classical geometrical problems.--The parallel postulate.--Insolubility of the algebraic quintic.--Mersenne's numbers.--String figures.--Astrology.--Cryptographs and ciphers.--Hyper-space.--Time and its measurement.--Matter and ether theories

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