Mathematical Recreations and Essays

Author: W. W. Rouse Ball

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Title: Mathematical Recreations and Essays

Author: W. W. Rouse Ball

Description: Ball's classic gathering of puzzles, constructions and mathematical curiosities, with chapters on polyhedra, magic squares, the geometry of chessboards and the history of squaring the circle.

Pages: 535

Size: 27.82 MB

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