Book:H. van Etten/Récréations Mathématiques

Subject Matter

 * Recreational mathematics: an anthology of arithmetical tricks and questions, including some original puzzles.


 * Based on.


 * Includes work from


 * Some of the first conjuring tricks, including The Inexhaustible Barrel.


 * Mechanical puzzles, experiments in optics and hydrostatics, the manufacturing of fireworks, and other questions of basic physics

Contents

 * How to keep wine fresh without ice or snow in the middle of summer


 * How to break a staff in one blow when it is balanced on $2$ glasses of water (attributed to )