Mathematical Recreations and Essays
W W Rouse Ball
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, April 21, 2018)
Excerpt from Mathematical Recreations and Essays The book is divided into two parts, but in both parts I have excluded questions which involve advanced mathematics. The First Part now consists Of ten chapters, in which are described various problems and amusements of the kind usually termed Mathematical Recreations. Several Of the questions mentioned in the first five chapters are Of a somewhat trivial character, and had they been treated in any standard English work to which I could have referred the reader, I Should have left them out: in the absence Of such a work, I thought it better to insert them and trust to the judicious reader to omit them altogether or to skim them as he feels inclined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.