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annotations
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145
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214
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Bakshali manuscript
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bell ringing
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226
billiards
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bishop path puzzle
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blind mathematicians
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51
Board Game Studies
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38
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149
Brilliancy (Beauty) prize
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51
Brouwer's fixed point theorem
28
Browne, Cameron
29
Buckyball
223–224
Bunimovich stadium
166
Cake-Cutting Algorithms
21
calculating prodigies
142
Cardan, Gerolamo
136
Catoptrica
163
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153
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119
Ceva, Giovanni
88–89
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173
chess, blindfold
16
Chinese mathematics
35
Chinese dissections
172
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99
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38–39
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31
competition
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149
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222
cycloid
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232
divisor function
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214
Eight Queens puzzle
23
Emergence of Fun Morality, The
222
enri
calculus
161
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Erdös, Paul
228
ethnomathematics
225
Euler's constant
113
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47
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138
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(journal)
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Experimental Mathematics
(book)
147
Fatou dust
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126
Fibonnaci sequence
131
Fine, Reuben
230
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21
Fisher, M. E.
71
four-colour theorem
144–145
Frege, Gotlob
73
Gale, David
28
game (gamen)
219
Game of Letter-Board
76
Games People Play
218
Gamow, George
52
Gasser, Ralph
26
Geometria Indivisibilibus
153
Geometry and the Imagination
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Go
35–39
Go Proverbs Illustrated
52
Goldbach's theorem
135–136
Golomb, Solomon
23–24
Goodtsein, R. L.
76
Grandi, Guido
112
Gregory, James
109–110
Grundy, Patrick
38