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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (* 9. Oktober 1581 in Bourg-en-Bresse; † 26. Februar 1638) war ein französischer Mathematiker. Er war ein Schüler und Freund des Jesuiten-Mathematikers Jacques de Billy (1602-1679) in der Jesuiten-Hochschule von Reims und schrieb eine interessante Sammlung von arithmetischen Tricks und Fragen aus der Unterhaltungsmathematik, die Problèmes plaisants et délectables, qui se font par les nombres, deren erste Ausgabe 1612, die zweite und erweiterte Ausgabe 1624 erschien. Eines der Rätsel war z. B.: "Wie müssen die Maße der vier Standardgewichte einer Balkenwaage lauten, um alle ganzzahligen Gewichte von 1 bis 40 Gramm wiegen zu können?" ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (October 9, 1581 - February 26, 1638) was a French mathematician born in Bourg-en-Bresse. Bachet was a pupil of the Jesuit mathematician Jacques de Billy at the Jesuit College in Rheims. They became close friends. Bachet wrote the Problèmes plaisants, of which the first edition was issued in 1612, a second and enlarged edition was brought out in 1624; this contains an interesting collection of arithmetical tricks and questions, many of which are quoted in W. W. Rouse Ball's Mathematical Recreations and Essays. He also wrote Les éléments arithmétiques, which exists in manuscript; and a translation, from Greek to Latin, of the Arithmetic of Diophantus (1621). It was this very translation in which Fermat wrote his famous margin note claiming that he had a proof of Fermat's last theorem. Bachet was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares. Some credible sources also name him the founder of the Bézout's identity. ... Read more