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Mathematical recreations and essays

9th ed.
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N.B.: Tenth edition and prior are by W. W. Rouse Ball. Newer editions are revised and extended by H. S. M. Coxeter.

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Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
492

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Cover of: Mathematical Recreations And Essays
Mathematical Recreations And Essays
June 30, 2004, Kessinger Publishing
Paperback in English
Cover of: Récréations mathématiques et problèmes des temps anciens et modernes
Récréations mathématiques et problèmes des temps anciens et modernes
1992, J. Gabay
in French - [Reprod. en fac-sim.].
Cover of: Mathematical recreations and essays
Mathematical recreations and essays
1987, Dover Publications
in English - 13th ed.
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Mathematical recreations & essays
1974, University of Toronto Press
in English - 12th ed.
Cover of: Mathematical recreations and essays
Mathematical recreations and essays
1922, Macmillan
in English - 10th ed.
Cover of: Mathematical recreations and essays
Mathematical recreations and essays
1920, Macmillan
in English - 9th ed.
Cover of: Mathematical recreations and essays
Mathematical recreations and essays
1917, Macmillan
- 7th ed.
Cover of: Mathematical recreations and essays.
Mathematical recreations and essays.
1914, Macmillan
in English - 6th ed.
Cover of: Mathematical recreations and essays
Mathematical recreations and essays
1911, Macmillan and Co., limited
in English - 5th ed.
Cover of: Récréations mathématiques et problèmes des temps anciens et modernes

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Table of Contents

Arithmetical recreations.
Geometrical recreations.
Mechanical recreations.
Chess-board recreations.
Magic squares.
Bees and their cells.
Unicursal problems.
Kirkman's school-girls problem.
Miscellaneous problems.
Calculating prodigies.
Arithmetical calculating machines.
Three classical geometrical problems.
The parallel postulate.
Insolubility of the algebraic quintic.
Mersenne's numbers.
String figures.
Astrology.
Cryptographs and ciphers.
Hyperspace.
Time and its measurement.
Matter and ether theories.

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Library of Congress
QA95 .B2 1920

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Pagination
xvi, 492 p.
Number of pages
492

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Open Library
OL24832054M
Internet Archive
mathematicalrecr1920ball

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First Sentence

"I commence by describing some arithmetical recreations."

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