Alcuin's Recreational Mathematics: River Crossings and Other Timeless Puzzles - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198925309ISBN-10:198925301UPC:9780198925309Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:Logic, History & PhilosophySize:9.34 x 6.44 x 0.54 inchesWeight:1.3206Product ID:SCCS8FE9C5
Alcuin's Recreational Mathematics: River Crossings and Other Timeless Puzzles
Propositiones ad acuendos juvenes ("Problems to Sharpen the Young") is a ninth-century book written by medieval teacher and scholar Alcuin of York. Today, it has become one of the foundational texts in what is commonly called recreational mathematics. The book has been translated in many languages and analysed from various mathematical angles and perspectives, from contemporary arithmetic and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198925309ISBN-10:198925301UPC:9780198925309Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:Logic, History & PhilosophySize:9.34 x 6.44 x 0.54 inchesWeight:1.3206Product ID:SCCS8FE9C5
Marcel Danesi, Professor Emeritus Anthropology, University of Toronto Professor Marcel Danesi is Professor Emeritus of linguistic anthropology at the University of Toronto. He directed the Program in Semiotics and, together with various cognitive scientists and mathematicians, founded the CogSci Center for the study of mathematics and mind at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical...
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