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Tracing the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving -- Puzzles
Math Puzzles’ Oldest Ancestors Took Form on Egyptian Papyrus
CALCULATIONS The scribe of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, an Egyptian document more than 3,600 years old, introduces the roughly 85 problems by saying that he is presenting the “correct method of reckoning, for grasping the meaning of things and knowing everything that is, obscurities and all secrets.”
By PAM BELLUCK
Published: December 6, 2010
“As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with seven wives. ...” More
Math Puzzles’ Oldest Ancestors Took Form on Egyptian Papyrus
CALCULATIONS The scribe of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, an Egyptian document more than 3,600 years old, introduces the roughly 85 problems by saying that he is presenting the “correct method of reckoning, for grasping the meaning of things and knowing everything that is, obscurities and all secrets.”
By PAM BELLUCK
Published: December 6, 2010
“As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with seven wives. ...” More
