Mathematical Recreations in the Middle Ages
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Mathematical Recreations in the Middle Ages

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Mathematical Recreations in the Middle Ages

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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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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Table of contents
  3. Chapter I: Sharing liquid by decanting
  4. Chapter II. Sharing liquid and vessels
  5. Chapter III. Minimal set of weights
  6. Chapter IV. Successive distributions
  7. Chapter V. Mutual borrowing
  8. Chapter VI. Filling and emptying cisterns
  9. Chapter VII. Messengers
  10. Chapter VIII. Large numbers
  11. Chapter IX. Arrangements
  12. Chapter X. Crossing a river
  13. Chapter XI. Miscellanea
  14. Chapter XII. Family relationships
  15. Chapter XIII. The knight’s tour
  16. Chapter XIV. Magic squares
  17. Chapter XV. Infinite sets
  18. Chapter XVI. Geometrical recreations
  19. Chapter XVII. Hidden numbers
  20. Appendices
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index
  23. Addenda