New Mathematical Pastimes (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Alexander Macmahon, Percy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1334014817 ISBN 13 : 9781334014819

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Edwards. You are a philosopher, Dr Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher, but I dont know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in. Boswell sL ife of Johnson. THE author of this book has, of recent years, devoted much time and thought to the development of the subject of Permutations and Combinations with which all students are familiar. He has been led, during that time, to construct, for use in the home circle, various sets of pieces, of elementary geometrical shapes based upon these ideas, and he now for the first time brings them together with the object of introducing, in a wider sphere, what he believes to be a pleasant by-path of mathematics which has almost entirely escaped the attention of the well-known writers upon Mathematical Recreations and A musements. The book differs in toto from their works because everything that it contains, with scarcely an exception, is the invention of the author. It is not a bringing together of materials derived from wholly different ideas. From beginning to end it proceeds along one defined path from which it never diverges. One continuous thread of thought runs through it from cover to cover. I ndeed, in view of the excellent collections of mathematical recreations that have proceeded from the pens of Ed. Lucas, W. W. Rouse Ball, W. A hrens, H. E. Dudeney and others it would appear that there is no room for another book upon the lines upon which these have been written. I would make particular reference to the work in two volumes of W. Ahrens of Magdeburg and draw attention to theB ibliography which it contains. It involves nearly eight hundred titles. This must have necessitated much research. He has included a large number of works upon magic squares and upon the knights tour and other chess-board amusements. These have been omitted from the short list appended to this book, which had been almo
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1334014817
• ISBN 13: 9781334014819
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 132
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