Games and Mathematics (49 page)

radian
58
,
99

Ramanujan, Srinivasa
84
,
141
,
147
,
213

Récréations Mathématiques
17

Rényi, Alfréd
228

Rhind papyrus
3

Robertson, Jack
21

Roberval, G. P. De
157
,
159

Romanticism
219

Rota, Gian-Carlo
220

Rules of Lasca, The
31

Russell, Bertrand
44
,
182

Saunderson, Nicholas
41

Schikard, Wilhelm
152

Schneider, Walter
198

Schultz, Daniel
138–140

Schwarz, Hermann
195

science
60

Segoe, Kensaku
52

Seven-Circle Theorem
129
,
204

shape
105–107

Shelah, S.
214

Shoelace Book
,
The
22

Simon, Herbert
37

Simson's line
90

Singmaster, David
213

skew quadrilateral
193–194

Snell, Willebrod
167

sona
225

Sprague, Roland
38

statue puzzle
5

Stein, E. M.
214

Steiner's porism
203–204

Stewart, Ian
229

string figures
1

Struggle
31

sums of squares
132

Sylvester, James
122–123
,
146
,
226

Tanaka, M.
136

tangent
102–104

Tartaglia
3

Temperley, H. N. V.
71

theorema
86
,
88
,
225

Thurston, William
140

Tonietti, Tito
213

topology
2
,
11
,
16

Toricelli, Evangelista
157

Tower of Hanoi
17–19
,
38
,
43
,
52
,
56
,
58

triangle geometry
123

Turkle, Sherry
230

TwixT
29

Ulam, Stanislav
197

Voltaire
51

Wallis, John
153

wasan
141
,
161
,
162

Webb, William
21

Weyl, Hermann
74
,
145

Whitehead A. N.
221

Wigner, Eugene
151

Wiles, Andrew
46
,
55
,
120

Wood, Thomas
77

Wolfe, David
62

Wolfenstein, Martha
222

women and mathematics
229–230

Winning Ways
38

Zeilberger, Doron
146

Zhoubi suanjing
173