It’s true. That very British-sounding St. Ives conundrum (the one where the seven wives each has seven sacks containing seven cats, who each has seven kits, and you have to figure out how many are ...

This is the most famous mathematical papyrus to have survived from Ancient Egypt. It contains 84 different mathematical problems - such as how to distribute 100 loaves of bread among a workforce in ...

In seven houses there are seven cats. Each cat catches seven mice. Each mouse would have eaten seven ears of corn and each ear of corn, if sown, would have produced seven gallons of grain. How many ...

The following is adapted from the introduction to “The Riddler: Fantastic Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight,” published by W. W. Norton & Co. It is in stores today! The world’s oldest collection of math ...

THE Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, a facsimile of which the Trustees of the British Museum have just issued, together with an introduction by Dr. Wallis Budge, is the document from which we gather most ...

The analysis of Problem 60 of the Rhind mathematical papyrus, the final exercise in a section devoted to the calculation of linear measures of monuments, is problematic, in particular with reference ...

“HABENT sua fata libelli.” The most valuable original document representing the ancient Egyptian mathematics is still the Papyrus Rhind in the British Museum. This papyrus was written at some time ...