Mathematical Recreations
by Kraitchik, Maurice
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1943. First British Edition. Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Based on the author's course of lectures in New York in October 1941. Printed on War Economy Standard Paper. Chapters are: Mathematics Without Numbers, Ancient and Curious Problems, Numerical Pastimes, Arithmetico-Geometrical Questions, The Calendar, Probabilities, Magic Squares, Geometric Recreations, Permutational Problems, The Problem of the Queens, The Problem of the Knight, Games. 328 Pages. Red Cloth cover with Gilt Lettering to spine. No inscriptions, Pages in very good, clean condition. Cover colour slightly faded in places. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Bookseller
- Cornish Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004925
- Title
- Mathematical Recreations
- Author
- Kraitchik, Maurice
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First British Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- MATHEMATICS/MATHEMATICAL PUZZLES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mathematics;
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