Book:Claude-Gaspar Bachet/Problèmes Plaisans et Delectables qui se font par les Nombres

Claude-Gaspar Bachet: Problèmes Plaisans et Delectables qui se font par les Nombres

Published $\text {1612}$.
In English:

Pleasant and Delectable Problems that are done by Numbers

Subject Matter

• Recreational mathematics: a collection of arithmetical tricks and questions

A compendium of previously published puzzles:

• River crossing problems
• The method of constructing magic squares that originated with Manuel Moschopoulos
• The Josephus problem as solved by Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia
• A liquid pouring problem
• Several Think of a Number tricks

Contents

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Further Editions

• 1624: Claude-Gaspar Bachet: Problèmes Plaisans et Delectables qui se font par les Nombres (2nd ed.)

Cited by

1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles

Sources

• 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Bachet