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Mathematical Recreations in the Middle Ages - Jacques Sesiano - EPFL Press

Mathematical Recreations in the Middle Ages

de Jacques Sesiano (auteur)
mars 2023
Livre papier
format 160 x 240 352 pages En stock
42,20 €

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Présentation

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.

Sommaire

  • I. Sharing liquid by decanting
  • II. Sharing liquid and vessels
  • III. Minimal set of weights
  • IV. Successive distributions
  • V. Mutual borrowing
  • VI. Filling and emptying cisterns
  • VII. Messengers
  • VIII. Large numbers
  • IX. Arrangements
  • X. Crossing a river
  • XI. Miscellanea
  • XII. Family relationships
  • XIII. The knight’s tour
  • XIV. Magic squares
  • XV. Infinite sets
  • XVI. Geometrical recreations
  • XVII. Hidden numbers – Appendices – A. Brief outline of the history of mathematics – B. Sources used
  • Bibliography
  • Index – Addenda – Euler and the knight’s move (in German; English summary) – Short history of continued fractions (in Russian; English summary)

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Informations

Editeur : EPFL Press

Auteur(s) : Jacques Sesiano

Publication : 14 mars 2023

Edition : 1ère édition

Support(s) : Livre papier

Nombre de pages Livre papier : 352

Format (en mm) Livre papier : 160 x 240

Poids (en grammes) : 630

Langue(s) : Anglais

EAN13 Livre papier : 9782889155125

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