Download or read book Mathematical Recreations and Essays written by Walter William Rouse Ball and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work offers scores of stimulating, mind-expanding games and puzzles: arithmetical and geometrical problems, chessboard recreations, magic squares, map-coloring problems, cryptography and cryptanalysis, much more. "A must to add to your mathematics library" ? The Mathematics Teacher. Index. References for Further Study. Includes 150 black-and-white line illustrations.