Mathematical recreations and essays
By: by W.W. Rouse Ball ...
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., limited
Published: 1911
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
Subjects: Mathematical recreations.; Geometry -- Famous problems.; Astrology.; Space and time.; Matter.; Magic squares.
Notes: Pages 493-506, advertising matter.
Table of contents: title: Arithmetical recreations.; title: Geometrical recreations.; title: Mechanical recreations.; title: Chess-board recreations.; title: Magic squares.; title: Unicursal problems.; title: Kirkman's school-girls problem.; title: Miscellaneous problems.; title: The mathematical tripos.; 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.