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Cyclically Symmetric Knight’s Tours

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Extract

Several mathematicians have studied the question of symmetry in the knight’s tour, one of the earliest being Euler and one of the latest Dr. Kraitchik of Brussels. Their investigations have been in the nature of random experiments, and they have confined themselves chiefly to square boards, thus missing such elegant results as

Fig. 1, which was published anonymously in the German periodical Denken und Raten in 1931.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1940 

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References

page no 321 note * Le Problème du Cavalier, 1927.