100 great problems of elementary mathematics : their history and solution
Heinrich Dörrie, דורי, הינריך (Translator) / David Antin (Translator)
Problems that beset Archimedes, Newton, Euler, Cauchy, Gauss, Monge and other greats, ready to challenge today's would-be problem solvers. Among them: How is a sundial constructed? How can you calculate the logarithm of a given number without the use of logarithm table? No advanced math is required. Includes 100 problems with proofs. --from publisher description
Problems and Exercises
1 online resource (x, 393 pages) : illustrations
9780486318479, 0486318478
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Arithmetical problems
Planimetric problems
Problems concerning conic sections and cycloids
Stereometric problems
Nautical and astronomical problems
Extremes
"A new translation of the unabridged text of the fifth edition ... published by the Physica-Verlag, Würzburg, Germany, in 1958 under the title Triumph der Mathematik: Hundert berühmte Probleme aus zwei Jahrtausenden mathematischer Kultur."