Mathematical recreations and essays - Ball, W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse), 1850-1925. (London, Macmillan and Co., limited, 1911)
Arithmetical recreations.--Geometrical recreations.--Mechanical recreations.--Chess-board recreations.--Magic squares.--Unicursal problems.--Kirkman's school-girls problem.--Miscellaneous problems.--The mathematical tripos.--Three classical geometrical problems.--The parallel postulate.--Insolubility of the algebraic quintic.--Mersenne's numbers.--String figures.--Astrology.--Cryptographs and ciphers.--Hyperspace.--Time and its measurement.--Matter and ether theories.
Pages 493-506, advertising matter.
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Keywords: Magic squares; Matter; Space and time; Astrology; Geometry -- Famous problems; Mathematical recreations