Match wits with the great minds of the world’s greatest civilizations in this fascinating collection of ancient conundrums brainteasers and mind-benders.Dominic Olivastro presents a popular history of mathematics by focusing on the puzzles that civilizations posed for their own education and entertainment. Here are classic “puzzle problems” from ancient Africa Egypt Persia China and Greece and from cultures and texts spanning the Middle Ages and the Renaissance all the way to the present. ...
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