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Mathematical recreations in the Middle Ages / Jacques Sesiano

Author
Sesiano, Jacques
Published
Lausanne : EPFL Press, [2023]
Copyright Date
©2023
Edition
First edition in English.
Physical Description
xiii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Language Note
Text in English, addenda in German and Russian with English summaries
Contents
Sharing liquid by decanting -- Sharing liquid and vessels -- Minimal sets of weights -- Successive distributions -- Mutual borrowing -- Filling and emptying cisterns -- Messengers -- Large numbers -- Arrangements -- Crossing a river -- Miscellanea -- Family relationships -- The knight's tour -- Magic squares -- Infinite sets -- Geometrical recreations -- Hidden numbers -- Appendices. Brief outline of the history of mathematics ; Sources used -- Addenda. Euler and the knight's move (in German; English summary) ; Short history of continued fractions (in Russian; English summary). Finite continued fractions ; Infinite continued fractions
Summary
"Mediaeval treatises on arithmetic and algebra frequently include, along with the usual commercial and daily life applications, mathematical games, to be played in company, and recreational problems. The latter, while still on the subject of trade or daily life, involve conditions which are quite unrealistic if not totally absurd. Their authors, in addition to present them as further mathematical exercises, wished to show their readers that mathematics may also have a less repellent if not amusing aspect." --
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ISBN
9782889155125 paperback
2889155129 paperback
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment
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