cheers
diana
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Barry Cipra wrote:
>
> In "The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles" David Wells
> writes "Prince Rupert was a nephew of Charles I of England, a soldier
> in the Civil War and an inventor and early member of the Royal
> Society." There is a chronology of recreational mathematics, by David
> Singmaster, at
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/9174/recchron.html
> which says the problem was first published in 1685, in Wallis's De
> Algebra Tractatus. There's also information in Singmaster's Sources
> in Recreational Mathematics at
> http://members.it.tripod.de/catur/singmast/intro.htm
>
> Barry Cipra
> cipra@microassist.com
>
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