Mathematical Recreations and Essays

Project Gutenberg’s Mathematical Recreations and Essays, by W. W. Rouse Ball This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Mathematical Recreations and Essays Author: W. W. Rouse Ball Release Date: October 8, 2008 [EBook #26839] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO 8859 1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS*** *** First Edition, Feb. 1892. Reprinted, May, 1892. Second Edition, 1896. Reprinted, 1905. MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS AND ESSAYS BY W.W.ROUSEBALL Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge. FOURTH EDITION London: MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY  [All rights reserved.] Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, David Starner, David Wilson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber’s notes Most of the open questions discussed by the author were settled during the twentieth century. *The author’s footnotes are labelled using printer’s marks ; footnotes showing where corrections to the text have been 1made are labelled numerically . AMinor typographical corrections are documented in the LT XE source. This document is designed for two-sided printing. Consequently, the many hyperlinked cross-references are not visually distinguished.