Название: Ancient Puzzles: Classic Brainteasers and Other Timeless Mathematical Games of the Last Ten CenturiesАвтор: Dominic Olivastro
Издательство: Bantam
Год: 1993
ISBN: 0553372971
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 288
Размер: 5,4 mb
Язык: English
Dominic Olivastro presents a popular history of mathematics by focusing on the puzzles that civilizations posed for their own education and entertainment. Here are classic “puzzle problems” from ancient Africa, Egypt, Persia, China, and Greece and from cultures and texts spanning the Middle Ages and the Renaissance all the way to the present.
Each puzzle is linked with insightful folk and scientific history that helps shed light on the mysterious purpose and origin of the problem. Fascinating clues for figuring out answers draw on modern problem-solving techniques and lead to ancient secrets that, before now, have rarely been understood. Whether you decipher them for their historical significance, classical wisdom, or just for the sheer, maddening fun of it, these delightful puzzles provide a unique, entertaining, and enlightening guide to the evolution of the human mind.