Title |
Some early topological puzzles: Part 1 |
Authors |
David Singmaster |
Abstract |
For some time, I considered the 1723-1725 edition of Ozanam's Récréations mathématiques et physiques as the first book to cover topological puzzles in detail and I only knew of a few earlier examples. Ozanam certainly gives many more examples than any previous book. In the last few years, I have discovered some early sources which show several topological puzzles as being considerably older than I previously knew. Here I show them. |
Keywords |
African beads puzzle, Chinese wallet, flick-flack, Jacob's ladder, Möbius strip, Solomon's seal, star of David, topological puzzles, Victoria puzzle |
Milestones |
Published: 2015/03/20 |
Author Details |
David Singmaster zingmast@gmail.com London South Bank University, UK |