Mediaeval treatises on arithmetic and algebra frequently include, along with the usual commercial and daily life applications, mathematical games, to be played in company, and recreational problems. The latter, while still on the subject of trade or daily life, involve conditions which are quite unrealistic if not totally absurd. Their authors, in addition to present them as further mathematical exercises, wished to show their readers that mathematics may also have a less repellent if not amusing aspect.
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Mathematical Recreations in the Middle Ages
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Table of contents
- Preface
- Table of contents
- Chapter I: Sharing liquid by decanting
- Chapter II. Sharing liquid and vessels
- Chapter III. Minimal set of weights
- Chapter IV. Successive distributions
- Chapter V. Mutual borrowing
- Chapter VI. Filling and emptying cisterns
- Chapter VII. Messengers
- Chapter VIII. Large numbers
- Chapter IX. Arrangements
- Chapter X. Crossing a river
- Chapter XI. Miscellanea
- Chapter XII. Family relationships
- Chapter XIII. The knight’s tour
- Chapter XIV. Magic squares
- Chapter XV. Infinite sets
- Chapter XVI. Geometrical recreations
- Chapter XVII. Hidden numbers
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
- Addenda
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