Title:
Recreations in the theory of numbers
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Dover Publications, 1964
ISBN:
9780486210964
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Summary
Summary
Number theory proves to be a virtually inexhaustible source of intriguing puzzle problems -- interesting to beginning and advanced readers. Divisors, perfect numbers, the congruences of Gauss, scales of notation, the Pell equation, many other aspects produce ingenious puzzles. Solutions to all problems.
Table of Contents
| Presentation at Court |
| Divisors for Diversion |
| Perfection |
| Just Between Friends |
| Invention of the Master |
| Open Sesame |
| The Cup of Tantalus |
| Digits-and the Magic of 9 |
| Scales and Discords |
| Cycling Towards Infinity |
| 11111... 111 phi-Fie-Fo-Fum |
| Queer Logs-Back to the Primitive |
| The Eternal Triangle |
| On the Square |
| Farey Tails |
| Round the Perimeter |
| Ball Games |
| Theorema Aureum |
| Among the Himalayas |
| Resolution |
| The Pellian |
| Morphology |
| The Stone Wall |
| Tilts and Tourneys |
| The Queen Explains: Solutions to Problems |
| Index |
