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Alcuin's recreational mathematics : river crossings and other timeless puzzles / Marcel Danesi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Danesi, Marcel, 1946- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alcuin, 735-804. Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes.
- Alcuin.
- Mathematical recreations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 241 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Recreational mathematics
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- 'Alcuin's Recreational Mathematics' demonstrates the notions of basic mathematics using the 53 problems found in the early ninth-century text 'Propositiones ad acuendos juvenes' ('Problems to Sharpen the Young') by the famous medieval cleric and teacher Alcuin of York.
- Contents:
- Introduction – The Propositiones – Recreational Mathematics – Purpose of This Book
- Arithmetic
- Countability
- Geometry
- Algebra
- Diophantine Problems
- Recreational Logic
- River Crossing Problems
- Sequences
- Measurement
- Assembly and Partitioning Problems
- Concluding Remarks
- Answers and Solutions to the Explorations
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 23, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9780198925330
- 0198925336
- 9780198925316
- 019892531X
- OCLC:
- 1463407908
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