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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
Cited by
1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles
Sources
- 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Bachet