Amusements in Mathematics
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- First published
- 1917
- Pages
- 587
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Henry Ernest Dudeney gathered his mathematical puzzles into this book in 1917, many of them first printed in magazines such as The Strand Magazine and Tit-Bits. His preface states the aim plainly: the reader is there to be amused, with some hope of picking up scraps of knowledge along the way.
The problems are sorted by kind: money puzzles, ages and kinship, clocks, speed, digits, dissections, chessboard problems, river crossings, magic squares and mazes. They are deliberately not ordered by difficulty, and the author warns that a question that looks simple may hide a trap. Solutions fill the back of the book, some worked at length and some given as bare answers. A note at the start explains pre-decimal British coinage, since many puzzles are priced in pennies, shillings and pounds.
Several sections are framed as talk around a family table, where a curate, a young man and the rest of the household trade questions, including one about a steel girdle round the earth.
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Book facts
- Author
- Henry Ernest Dudeney
- First published
- 1917
- Reading time
- About 12 hours
- Pages
- 587
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Mathematics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online