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New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1953. |
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| Description |
330 pages: illustrations; 21 cm |
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| Edition |
Second revised edition |
| Note |
"May ... be regarded as a revised edition of ... [the author's] 'La mathématique des jeux.'" |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Chapter One : mathematics without numbers - - Chapter Two : ancient and curious problems - - Arabian problems - reapportionment by decanting hindu problems - - Chapter Three : Numerical pastimes - - 1. miscellaneous problems - - 2. scales of notation - - 3. to guess a selected number - - 4. figurate numbers - - 5. Mersenne numbers and perfect numbers - - 6. Fermat numbers - - 7. cyclic numbers. - - 8. automorphic numbers - - 9. prime numbers - - 10. multigrade - - 11. cryptarithmetic - - 12. arithmetical games - - 13. Josephus problems - - Chapter four : arithmetico-geometrical questions - - Chapter five : the calendar - - Chapter six : probabilities - - Chapter Seven : magic squares - - 1. definitions - - 2. transformations - - 3. magic squares of the third order - - 4. elementary methods of construction - - 5. lattices - - 6. regular magic squares of odd order - - 7. border squares - - 8. composite magic squares - - 9. panmagic squares - - 10. multimagic squares - - 11. Latin squares - - 12. Euler. (Graeco-latin squares). - - 13. magic squares of order 4 - - Chapter eight : geometric recreations - - 1. dissection of plane figures - - 2. mosaics - - 3. a mosaic on the sphere - - 4. topology - - Chapter Nine : permutational problems - - 1. difficult crossings - - 2. shunting problems - - 3. distributions - - 4. matches and tournaments - - Chapter Ten : the problem of the queens - - 1. the linear permutations of n different things - - 2. the problem of the rooks - - 3. the problem of the queens - - Chapter eleven : the problem of the knight - - Chapter Twelve : Games - - 1. positional games - - 2. permutational games |
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Mathematical recreations.
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Mathematics.
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Scientific recreations.
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Puzzles.
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