Ahmes Legacy

Provides a rare look at the psychology and neuroscientific aspects of recreational mathematics and what it entails for understanding the mathematical mind
Presents an overall picture of what pizzles mean for the origins and developments of mathematics

Maintains a user-friendly level, while including more technical discussion of solutions in appendices for interested readers

Provides a rare look at the psychology and neuroscientific aspects of recreational mathematics and what it entails for understanding the mathematical mind Presents an overall picture of what pizzles mean for the origins and developments of mathematics Maintains a user-friendly level, while including more technical discussion of solutions in appendices for interested readers

Résumé

"This book, however, focuses almost exclusively on puzzles within recreational mathematics, and surveys a wide variety of them. The book's title comes from the Ahmes Papyrus (also called the Rhind Papyrus), that contains some of the oldest known puzzles. One of the peculiarities of the problem-puzzle distinction is that is it time-dependent, because we develop new standard methods from working on particular puzzles." (Allen Stenger, MAA Reviews, January, 25, 2019)

Contenu

1. Puzzles and Mathematics.- 2. An Archetype Theory of Puzzles.- 3. Puzzles and Discovery.- 4. Puzzles and Spatial Reasoning.- 5. The Mathematical Mind.- References.- Index.