Mathematical Recreations and Essays

W. W. Rouse Ball1417921269, 9781417921263, 1444655566, 9781444655568, 0486253570, 9780486253572, 1444655000, 9781444655001

1892. This book contains descriptions of various problems of the kind usually termed Mathematical Recreations and a few Essays on some analogous questions. Contents: Arithmetical Recreations; Geometrical Recreations; Mechanical Recreations; Chessboard Recreations; Magic Squares; Bees and Their Cells; Unicursal Problems; Kirkman’s School-Girls Problem; Miscellaneous Problems; Calculating Prodigies; Cryptographs and Ciphers; String Figures; and Three Classical Geometrical Problems.