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9780486210964

Recreations in the Theory of Numbers

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  • ISBN13:

    9780486210964

  • ISBN10:

    0486210960

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1964-06-01
  • Publisher: Dover Publications
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Summary

Number theory shown to be virtually inexhaustible source of intriguing puzzle problemsinteresting 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

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