VIC112Y1 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Minor Arcana, Penrose Tiling, Ramesses I
9 Oct 2017
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Archimedes invented the cattle problem to fool an adversary (ended up stimulating the development of notational standards in mathematics) Easy to solve today, yet greek"s had only rudimentary representational techniques. Fibonacci"s rabbit puzzle: led to discovery of many patterns among the integers. Euler"s konigsberg"s bridges puzzle: led to the development of network theory, combinatorics, and topology. 1612: recreational mathematics emerges as a kind of semi-autonomous branch of mathematics. 1612: claude-gaspar bachet de mezirac published the rst comprehensive collection of puzzles: amusing and delightful number problems. 20th century: recreational mathematicians establish their own scholarly journals and sources of information. Carrollian gure representing the puzzle instinct"s fascination with numerical patterns and with broader implications that such patterns have for understanding the world around us: the queen of hearts. Math, like the queen, reigns over all of science. Formed by arranging consecutive numbers in the cells of a square array so that the sums of the rows, columns, and diagonals are equal.
