Mathematical Recreations and Essays

Walter William Rouse Ball, 1905. Macmillan and Co., 4th ed., 1905

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Chapters

Some Arithmetical Questions 20 excerpts, 33 equations, 0 problems
Some Geometrical Questions 26 excerpts, 8 equations, 0 problems
Some Mechanical Questions 21 excerpts, 18 equations, 0 problems
Some Miscellaneous Questions 23 excerpts, 52 equations, 0 problems
Magic Squares 19 excerpts, 15 equations, 0 problems
Unicursal Problems 22 excerpts, 11 equations, 0 problems
The Mathematical Tripos 16 excerpts, 0 equations, 0 problems
Three Geometrical Problems 14 excerpts, 65 equations, 0 problems
Mersenne's Numbers 7 excerpts, 18 equations, 0 problems
Astrology 5 excerpts, 0 equations, 0 problems
Cryptographs and Ciphers 20 excerpts, 4 equations, 0 problems
Hyper-space 5 excerpts, 2 equations, 0 problems
Time and its Measurement 11 excerpts, 15 equations, 0 problems
Matter and Ether Theories 13 excerpts, 1 equations, 0 problems

Index of terms 439 terms, by chapter

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