Games and Mathematics (48 page)

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Authors: David Wells

Hadamard, Jacques
140
,
226
Halley, Edmund
149
Halmos, Paul
214
Hamilton, William Rowan
6
Hamming, Richard
35
harmonic series
111
Hardy–Weinberg law
208
Heavyside, Oliver
151–152
Hein, Piet
26
Henle, Jim
211
Heron of Alexandria
163
Heron's theorem
166
,
167
,
168
Hex Strategy
29
Hilbert, David
31
,
51–52
,
57
,
215
,
228
History of Board Games
222
Hofstadter, Douglas
143–144
Hofstadter's sequence
144
Huxley, T. H.
122
Icosian Game, The
6
intuition for the abstract
58
,
171
Inversion, geometrical
202–204
Japanese mathematics
35
,
141
,
161
Jacob's ladder
2
Jeffreys, Harold & Bertha S.
153
Josephus puzzle
5
Joxe, Louis
221
Julia set
211
Kac, Mark
228
Kanada, Yasumasa
66
Kasparov, Gary
37
,
84
Kastelyn, P. W.
71
Kepler, Johannes
60
,
149
,
167
,
184
Kiepert, Ludwig
127
Klein, Felix
55
,
226
,
228
Kline, Morris
113
knight tours
12–16
,
61
Koltanowski
16
,
40
Kowa, Seki
161
Lasca
31
Lakatos, Imre
117
Lasker, Emanuel
31
LEGO
7
Lehman R. S.
136
Leibnitz, G. W.
11
,
54
,
109–110
,
112
,
152
,
161
,
207
,
217
,
226
Lemoine, Emile
126
Leonardo da Vinci
189
,
217
Levy, S.
143
Liber Abaci
3
Lionnais, François Le
211
Liouville, Joseph
75
,
80–81
Listing, Johann
233
Littlewood, J. E.
135
,
141
,
147
,
213
Liu Hui
173
,
180
Longchamps, G. de
127
Loomis, Elijah S.
188
Lucas, Éduard
17–21
lucky numbers
197
lucky Goldbach conjecture
198
ludus calculorum
77
Maclane, Saunders
120
,
141
,
152
,
226
Madhava
109
,
110
Mallows, C. L.
55
Mandelbrot, Benoit
211
,
227
,
229
Manin, Yuri
185
Mao, Yong
21
Mathematical Go
38
,
62
Mathematician's Apology, A
63
Matsuzaki, Kiyoshi
77
Maupertuis, Pierre de
167
Mehen, game of
1
Menelaus
89
Merchant's Problems
6
Mersenne number
20
Methods of Mathematical Physics
153
minimal surface
195
Morin, Bernard
41
Murray, Harold
222
Nagel, Christian
127
,
128
Napoleon's theorem
128
,
173–175
Nash, John
26–28
Neuberg, Joseph
127
Neumann, John von
58–59
,
162
,
212
,
213
,
220
Newell Alan
37
Newton, Issac
54–55
,
60
,
109
,
143
,
149
,
160
,
167
,
168
,
207
,
226
Nichomachus
177
,
180
Nine Men's Morris
25–26
,
52
,
62
,
142
nine-point circle
126
Noether, Emmy
31
,
141
normal numbers
66
ocean plait
232
odd perfect numbers
98
Oldenburg, Henry
207
On divergent series
112
On the quadrature of the parabola
108
optics
162
Oranges and Lemons
220
Oresme, Nicholas
110
,
111–114
Papert, Seymour
230
Pappus
169
parabola
93
,
190
,
206
partitions
180–182
,
213
Pascal, Blaise
152
,
157
,
160
Pascal's triangle
19
,
68
,
137
pentagonal numbers
178
pentagonal number theorem
81–83
pentominoes
23
,
61
,
71
Piaggio, H. T. H.
151
Plato
148
,
150
,
219
play (plegian)
220
plinthios
2
Poe, Edgar Allan
226
Poincaré, Henri
55
,
73
,
184
,
208
,
213
Polster, Burkhard
22
Polya, George
75
,
136
polygonal numbers
176–180
Poncelet, Jean Victor
205–206
Pontryagin, Lev
41
Porphyry
44
prime numbers
20
,
133–135
Primrose, E. J. F.
76
problema
86
,
88
,
225
Proofs and Refutations
117
Propositions to Sharpen the Young
3
Protracted Game, The
45
Pythagoras
150
Pythagoras’ theorem
79
,
127
,
128
,
184
,
189
,
210
Psychology of Invention…, The
226
Pythagorean Proposition, The
188

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