Mathematical recreations & essays

Author(s)

• Ball, W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse)
• Coxeter, H. S. M. (Harold Scott Macdonald)

Bibliographic Information

Mathematical recreations & essays

by W.W. Rouse Ball ; revised by H.S.M. Coxeter

Macmillan Co., 1939

11th ed

Note

"Copyright. First edition, 1892 ... Eleventh edition, 1939."

"References for further study": p. 410

Bibliographical foot-notes

Contents of Works

• Arithmetical recreations
• Geometrical recreations
• Polyhedra
• Chess board recreations
• Magic squares
• Map-coloring Problems
• Unicursal problems
• Kirkman's school-girls problems
• Miscellaneous problems
• Three classical geometrical problems
• Calculating prodigies
• Cryptography and cryptanalysis

Details

• NCID: BA12061356
• LCCN: 39027626
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 418 p., [2] leaves of plates
• Size: ill. ; 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QA95
  • DC : 510.76
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mathematical recreations
  • LCSH : Geometry -- Problems, Famous
  • LCSH : Cryptography
  • LCSH : Ciphers