The Master Book Of Mathematical Recreations

Author : Fred Schuh
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486808956

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The Master Book of Mathematical Recreations by Fred Schuh Pdf

Praised for its "exceptionally good value" by the Journal of Recreational Mathematics, this book offers fun-filled insights into many fields of mathematics. The brainteasers include original puzzles as well as new approaches to classic conundrums. A vast assortment of challenges features domino puzzles, the game of noughts and crosses, games of encirclement, sliding movement puzzles, subtraction games, puzzles in mechanics, games with piles of matches, a road puzzle with concentric circles, "Catch the Giant," and much more. Detailed solutions show several methods by which a particular problem may be answered, why one method is preferable, and where the others fail. With numerous worked examples, the clear, step-by-step analyses cover how the problem should be approached, including hints and enumeration of possibilities and determination of probabilities, application of the theory of probability, and evaluation of contingencies and mean values. Readers are certain to improve their puzzle-solving strategies as well as their mathematical skills.

Author : Walter William Rouse Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UOM:39015038946904

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Mathematical Recreations and Problems of Past and Present Times by Walter William Rouse Ball Pdf

Author : David A. Klarner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Mathematical recreations
ISBN : 0486400891

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Mathematical Recreations by David A. Klarner Pdf

Games, puzzles by disciples of master mathematician include geometrical puzzles, items on tiling, numbers & coding theory, more.

Author : W. W. ROUSE BALL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS AND ESSAYS by W. W. ROUSE BALL Pdf

Author : W. W. Rouse Ball,H.S.M. Coxeter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1974-12-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781442633216

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Mathematical Recreations & Essays by W. W. Rouse Ball,H.S.M. Coxeter Pdf

For over eighty years this delightful classic has provided entertainment through mathematical problems commonly known as recreations. Although they often involve fundamental mathematical methods and notions, their chief appeal is as games or puzzles rather than the usefulness of their conclusions. This new edition upholds the original, but the terminology and treatment of problems have been updated and much new material has been added. There are new selections on polyominoes and the notion of dragon designs, and a new chapter, ‘Introduction to Combinatorics.’ Other topics dealt with in the fourteen chapters include arithmetical and geometrical recreations and problems, polyhedra, chess-board recreations, unicursal problems, cryptography and cryptanalysis, and calculating prodigies. Since no knowledge of calculus or analytic geometry is necessary to enjoy the recreations, this book will appeal widely to teachers of mathematics and students and to anyone who is mathematically inclined.

Author : Maurice Kraitchik
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486453583

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Mathematical Recreations by Maurice Kraitchik Pdf

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. 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. Other problems are based on "mathematics without numbers," geometry, topology, the calendar, arithmetic, and the mathematics of chess moves. 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. More than forty pages are devoted to magic squares, and the concluding portion of the book presents more than twenty-five new positional and permutational games of permanent value. A discussion of fairy chess is followed by rules and procedural information on latruncles, go, reversi, jinx, ruma, lasca, tricolor, four-story towers, tetrachrome, and other games. More than a collection of wonderful puzzles, this volume offers a thorough, rigorous, and entertaining sampler of recreational mathematics, highlighted by numerous insights into specialized fields.

Author : W W Rouse Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1686335237

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Mathematical Recreations and Essays by W W Rouse Ball Pdf

The following pages contain an account of certain mathematicalrecreations, problems, and speculations of past and present times. Ihasten to add that the conclusions are of no practical use, and mostof the results are not new. If therefore the reader proceeds further heis at least forewarned.At the same time I think I may assert that many of the diversions-particularly those in the latter half of the book-are interesting, nota few are associated with the names of distinguished mathematicians, while hitherto several of the memoirs quoted have not been easily accessibleto English readers

Author : Walter William Rouse Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Ciphers
ISBN : OCLC:477067388

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Mathematical Recreations and Essays by Walter William Rouse Ball Pdf

Author : Walter William Rouse Ball,Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486253572

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Mathematical Recreations and Essays by Walter William Rouse Ball,Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter Pdf

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.

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1958-06
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486204936

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Mathematical Recreations of Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll Pdf

Whimsically and delightfully presented mathematical recreations by the author of Alice in Wonderland are solved by arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, differential calculus and transcendental properties. 6 illustrations. Two books bound as one.

Author : Albert H. Beiler
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1964-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486210964

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Recreations in the Theory of Numbers by Albert H. Beiler Pdf

Number theory proves to be a virtually inexhaustible source of intriguing puzzle problems. Includes divisors, perfect numbers, the congruences of Gauss, scales of notation, the Pell equation, more. Solutions to all problems.

Author : Norvin Pallas
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486266702

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Calculator Puzzles, Tricks and Games by Norvin Pallas Pdf

A collection of games, tricks, and puzzles which illustrate the capabilities of a calculator.

Author : Walter William Rouse Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:651741364

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Mathematical Recreations and Problems of Past and Present Times by Walter William Rouse Ball Pdf

Author : W. W. Rouse Ball
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1330033965

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Mathematical Recreations and Essays by W. W. Rouse Ball Pdf

Excerpt from Mathematical Recreations and Essays The earlier part of this book contains an account of certain Mathematical Recreations: this is followed by some Essays on subjects most of which are directly concerned with historical mathematical problems. I hasten to add that the conclusions are of no practical use, and that most of the results are not new. If therefore the reader proceeds further he is at least forewarned. At the same time I think I may say that many of the questions discussed are interesting, not a few are associated with the names of distinguished mathematicians, while hitherto several of the memoirs quoted have not been easily accessible to English readers. A great deal of new matter has been added since the work was first issued in 1892, but insertions made since 1911, when the book was stereotyped, have had to be placed where room for them could best be found. The book is divided into two parts, but in both parts I have excluded questions which involve advanced mathematics. The First Part now consists of ten chapters, in which are described various problems and amusements of the kind usually termed Mathematical Recreations. Several of the questions mentioned in the first five chapters are of a somewhat trivial character, and had they been treated in any standard English work to which I could have referred the reader, I should have left them out: in the absence of such a work, I thought it better to insert them and trust to the judicious reader to omit them altogether or to skim them as he feels inclined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Walter William Rouse Ball,Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Ciphers
ISBN : LCCN:a48007539

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Mathematical Recreations & Essays by Walter William Rouse Ball,Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter Pdf