Book:Journal/The Ladies' Diary/Historical Note

Historical Note on
Started life as a women's interest magazine, but evolved into a magazine of riddles, puzzles and mathematical questions.

In its later years, many of the questions published therein were difficult, and attracted the attention of high-profile mathematicians of the time.

Many questions it published were ancient. For example:


 * Question $42$ was a variant of Chiu Chang Suann Jing: Example 8.


 * Question $51$ was taken from : Book $\text {V}$.

It was also frequently the case where the questions were taken directly from published sources, sometimes even mathematics textbooks.