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Mathematical recreations and problems of past and present times

Mathematical recreations and problems of past and present times

by W. W. Rouse Ball

Occult PhilosophyHermeticismModern

Chapters

68

Total Words

200,654

Reading Time

803 min

Published

1892

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Table of Contents

1.Preface
3 min
2.Chapter I. Arithmetical Recreations.
1 min
3.Chapter II. Arithmetical Recreations (Continued).
1 min
4.Chapter III. Geometrical Recreations.
1 min
5.Chapter IV. Geometrical Recreations [Continued).
1 min
6.Chapter V. Mechanical Recreations.
1 min
7.Chapter VI. Chess-Board Recreations.
1 min
8.Chapter VII. Magic Squares.
1 min
9.Chapter VIII. Unicup.sal Problems.
1 min
10.Chapter IX. Kirkman's School-Girls Problem.
1 min
11.Chapter X. Miscellaneous Proble:.i3.
1 min
12.Chapter XL The Mathematical Tripos.
2 min
13.Chapter XII. Three Classical Geometrical Problems.
1 min
14.Chapter XIII. The Parallel Postulate
1 min
15.Chapter XIV. Insolubility of the Algebraic Quintic.
1 min
16.Chapter XV. Mersenne's Numbers.
1 min
17.Chapter XVI. String Figures.
1 min
18.Chapter XVII. Astrology.
1 min
19.Chapter XVIII. Cryptographs and CrrrTEKS.
1 min
20.Chapter XIX. Hyper Space.
1 min
21.Chapter XX. Time and its Measurement.
1 min
22.Chapter XXI. Matter and Ether Theories.
1 min
23.PART I.
1 min
24.CHAPTER I.
35 min
25.CII. l] ARITHMETICAL RECREATIONS 23
8 min
26.CHAPTER 11.
6 min
27.book in use contains 700 hymns. What is the smallest number
18 min
28.chapter xv.
7 min
29.VI. 19, /SABG : IS ABD = AG' : AD\
8 min
30.I. 32 and Euclid I. 47 can be so supplemented and are valid.
13 min
31.CHAPTER IV.
16 min
32.M. De Fonteney has remarked that, if there was an island
1 min
33.M. G. Tarry has suggested an extension of the problem,
12 min
34.part V, pp. 89 — 141.
29 min
35.CM. V]
60 min
36.CHAPTER VII.
4 min
37.chapter iv ; and W. Ahrens, Mathematische Unterhaltungen und Spiele, Leipzig,
1 min
38.chapter xii : Euler, Commentationes Arithmeticae Collectae, St Petersburg, 1849,
47 min
39.CHAPTER VIII.
32 min
40.CHAPTER IX.
58 min
41.CHAPTER X.
37 min
42.CHAPTER XL
12 min
43.part in it constantly gave rise to accusations of partiality.
46 min
44.Part II was abolished — a change on which all parties were
5 min
45.CHAPTER XII.
28 min
46.L. van Cenlen devoted no inconsidorable part of his life to
9 min
47.CHAPTER XIII.
28 min
48.CHAPTER XIV.
10 min
49.CHAPTER XV.
23 min
50.CHAPTER XVI.
44 min
51.C. F. Jayne's Strinp Figures, New York, 1906, chapter viii. See, also,
12 min
52.Part X ; 0. Boddicker, Erweiteruvg dcr Gauss'schen Theorie der Venchlinqungen,
1 min
53.CHAPTER XVII.
22 min
54.CHAPTER XVIII.
35 min
55.D. K. 27
7 min
56.book cipher, to which I have already alluded. In this, a code
3 min
57.CHAPTER XIX.
18 min
58.D. Hilbert, M. L. Gerard, A. N. Whitehead, and others.
3 min
59.CHAPTER XX.
32 min
60.CHAPTER XXI.
2 min
61.I. Hypothesis of Continuous Matter. It may be
1 min
62.II. Atomic Theories. If matter is not continuous we
4 min
63.III. Dynamical Theories. In more recent years the
10 min
64.CM. XXl] MATTER AND ETHER THEORIES 469
11 min
65.chapter xix, this connection does exist, for all the molecules
30 min
66.book is at all dry. On the contrary the biographical sketches frequently
11 min
67.book is warmly to be recommended, and should find a place on the shelves of
7 min
68.chapter is devoted to the investigations made in 1684 : these are
11 min

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