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by Albert H. Beiler
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ISBN: 0486210960 Dover Publications Price: $14.95 |
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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 for Recreations in the Theory of Numbers
| 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 |