Mathematical Recreations & Essays : : Twelfth Edition / / W. W. Rouse Ball, H.S.M. Coxeter.

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. T...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1974
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Preface to the Tenth Edition --   |t Preface to the Eleventh Edition --   |t Preface to the Twelfth Edition --   |t Contents --   |t I. Arithmetical Recreations --   |t II. Arithmetical Recreations (Continued) --   |t III. Geometrical Recreations --   |t IV. Geometrical Recreations (Continued) --   |t V. Polyhedra --   |t VI. Chess-Board Recreations --   |t VII. Magic Squares --   |t VIII. Map-Colouring Problems --   |t IX. Unicursal Problems --   |t X. Combinatorial Designs --   |t XI. Miscellaneous Problems --   |t XII. Three Classical Geometrical Problems --   |t XIII. Calculating Prodigies --   |t XIV. Cryptography and Cryptanalysis --   |t Index 
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520 |a 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. 
538 |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 
546 |a In English. 
588 0 |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) 
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650 0 |a Cryptography. 
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