Mathematical recreations and essays
By: by W.W. Rouse Ball
Edition: 9th ed.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1920
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
Subjects: Matter; Magic squares; Mathematical recreations; Geometry; Famous problems; Space and time; Astrology
Table of contents: title: Arithmetical recreations.; title: Geometrical recreations.; title: Mechanical recreations.; title: Chess-board recreations.; title: Magic squares.; title: Bees and their cells.; title: Unicursal problems.; title: Kirkman's school-girls problem.; title: Miscellaneous problems.; title: Calculating prodigies.; title: Arithmetical calculating machines.; title: Three classical geometrical problems.; title: The parallel postulate.; title: Insolubility of the algebraic quintic.; title: Mersenne's numbers.; title: String figures.; title: Astrology.; title: Cryptographs and ciphers.; title: Hyperspace.; title: Time and its measurement.; title: Matter and ether theories.