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1993

Format:	Book
Author:	Olivastro, Dominic.
Title:	Ancient puzzles : classic brainteasers and other timeless mathematical games of the last 10 centuries / Dominic Olivastro.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Bantam Books, 1993.
Description:	280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:	Presents a popular history of mathematics by focusing on the puzzles that civilizations posed for their own education and entertainment. Includes "puzzle problems" from ancient Africa, Egypt, Persia, China, and Greece and from cultures and texts spanning the Middle Ages and the Reniassance all the way to the present.
Subjects:	Mathematical recreations.
Genre:	Puzzles and games.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279).
Contents:	The first etches -- The entrance into all obscure secrets -- On a temple roof -- To measure the heavens -- On a turtle shell -- Speak, who can -- I was regarded with astonishment -- The merchants of Pisa and the digits of the hindus -- Graphs and puzzles.
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LCCN:	93001985
ISBN:	0553372971 9780553372977
Other Number:	28147772
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Control Number:	30660
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Call Number:	793.74 Olivastr

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