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By W. W. Rouse Ball, H. S. M. Coxeter

This vintage paintings bargains rankings of stimulating, mind-expanding video games and puzzles: arithmetical and geometrical difficulties, chessboard recreations, magic squares, map-coloring difficulties, cryptography and cryptanalysis, even more. "A needs to so as to add on your arithmetic library" — The arithmetic Teacher. Index. References for additional examine. comprises one hundred fifty black-and-white line illustrations.

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