Definition:Hound and Hare Problem/Historical Note

Historical Note on Hound and Hare Problem

Hound and hare problem appear in quite complicated versions in the Chiu Chang Suann Jing, from far back as $150$ BCE.

By the time of Alcuin of York, such problems occur in the Indian and Arabian literature, often using a messenger as the pursuer.

Also see

• Results about hound and hare problems can be found here.

Sources

• 1992: John Hadley/2 and David Singmaster: Problems to Sharpen the Young (Math. Gazette Vol. 76, no. 475: pp. 102 – 126)  www.jstor.org/stable/3620384