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How to deal with modern mathematicians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

M. L. Cornelius
M. L. Cornelius*
Affiliation:
Department of Education, University of Durham, DH1 3JH
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Extract

In the eighteenth century The Ladies’ Diary regularly included mathematical problems. A complete collection of these problems from 1704 to 1760 appears in a volume entitled The Diarian Repository; or Mathematical Register published in 1774 [1]:

“... a collection of more than four hundred and seventy Problems, relating to such various parts of the Mathematics as are here collected from the Diaries, together with their Solutions fully investigated will, we doubt not, prove of considerable service to the young Adventurer in this useful branch of learning...”

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 58 , Issue 406 , December 1974 , pp. 285 - 287
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1974

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