This classic work offers scores of stimulating, mind-expanding games and puzzles: arithmetical and geometrical problems, chessboard recreations, magic squares, map-coloring problems, cryptography and cryptanalysis, much more. "A must to add to your mathematics library." — The Mathematics Teacher. Index. References for Further Study. Includes 150 black-and-white line illustrations.
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This is a classic collection of mathematical recreations. Originally written by W.W. Rouse Ball around 1900, this edition has been updated by the great geometer H.S.M. Coxeter. It is a comprehensive first source for information about magic squares, Platonic and Archimedian solids, "Knight's Tours" and other chessboard recreations, and just about any other variety of math-related puzzle you could name.For a mathematician, Coxeter is an excellent writer, and the book is quite accessible, even to relative math novices. Fans of Martin Gardner's books, of his "Scientific American" Mathematical Games columns, will want to own this. And because it's published by Dover, the price is right, too.
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Any fan of mathematical puzzles will go ape over this thoroughly researched, timeless classic. Even for jaded scientists in their forties (such as me) and beyond, there's always some new gem to be discovered at the turn of a page. The scope of the book is immense, ranging from all manner of "classical" recreations to the puzzles of antiquity (e.g., squaring the circle) to the history of pi to the structure and functionality of the kaleidoscope. It's all here!
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Must have for any recreational mathematician.,
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This is a timeless classic and a primary reference for recreational mathematicians. And the price is unbeatable.
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Philosophical Magazine, Messenger of Mathematics, Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, British Association, Conrad's Table, Crelle's Journal, Collected Scientific Papers, First Example, Leslie Ellis, The Tribune, Clerk Maxwell, Collected Works, Educational Times Reprints, Fourth Example, Hauksbee's Law, Opera Varia, Philosophical Transactions, Third Example, Archimedis Opera, Fermat's Diophantus, History of Mathematics, Institution of Civil Engineers, Mathematical Gazette, Second Example New!
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Philosophical Magazine, Messenger of Mathematics, Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, British Association, Conrad's Table, Crelle's Journal, Collected Scientific Papers, First Example, Leslie Ellis, The Tribune, Clerk Maxwell, Collected Works, Educational Times Reprints, Fourth Example, Hauksbee's Law, Opera Varia, Philosophical Transactions, Third Example, Archimedis Opera, Fermat's Diophantus, History of Mathematics, Institution of Civil Engineers, Mathematical Gazette, Second Example New!
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- Mathematics Galore!: Masterclasses, Workshops, and Team Projects in Mathematics and Its Applications by C. J. Budd on 5 pages
- Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions: The First Scientific American Book of Puzzles and Games by Martin Gardner on 4 pages
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