It’s true. That very British-sounding St. Ives conundrum (the one where the seven wives each has seven sacks containing seven cats, who each has seven kits, and you have to figure out how many are ...

WHEN Prof. T. Eric Peet's handsome and in every respect admirable edition of the Rhind Papyrus appeared in 1923, anyone who read it must have felt that we had afr long last (nearly fifty years had ...

APPENDIX: ONE: The nature of proof -- TWO: The Egyptian calendar -- THREE: Great pyramid mysticism -- FOUR: Regarding Morris Kline's views in Mathematics, A Cultural Approach -- FIVE: The Pythagorean ...

THE Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, a facsimile of which the Trustees of the British Museum have just issued, together with an introduction by Dr. Wallis Budge, is the document from which we gather most ...

PROF. FEET'S beautiful book is written for the Egyptologist and the mathematician, but not only for them. It is also for the man in the street- in such a street as runs through any university town; ...

II AMONG the mathematical processes known to the Egyptians (for some few of which we have to go to the Berlin and Moscow papyri) were squaring and extraction of square roots, arithmetical progressions ...