Autore: H.S.M. Coxeter

For over eighty years this delightful classic has provided entertainment through mathematical problems commonly known as recreations. Although they often involve fundamental mathematical methods and …

The name non-Euclidean was used by Gauss to describe a system of geometry which differs from Euclid’s in its properties of parallelism. Such a system was developed independently by Bolyai in Hungary …

The name non-Euclidean was used by Gauss to describe a system of geometry which differs from Euclid’s in its properties of parallelism. Such a system was developed independently by Bolyai in Hungary …

For over eighty years this delightful classic has provided entertainment through mathematical problems commonly known as recreations. Although they often involve fundamental mathematical methods and …

Along with many small improvements, this revised edition contains van Yzeren’s new proof of Pascal’s theorem (1.7) and, in Chapter 2, an improved treatment of order and sense. The Sylvester-Gallai th …