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An official asks a woman why she has so many bowls to wash. The woman explains that she had dinner guests who ate meat, rice, and soup. Judging by the number of bowls, how many guests were there?

Three Numbers in France

I wish to find three numbers of such nature that the first and the second with 1/2 of the third makes 20...

Viete: Triangle

In a right triangle, let the perpendicular be 5 and the sum of the base and hypotenuse 25. Find the lengths of the base and hypotenuse

Algebraic Formalism within the Works of Servois and Its Influence on the Development of Linear Operator Theory

How Servois' failed attempt to construct a foundation for the calculus nonetheless helped shape modern mathematics

Everything and More

A survey of concepts of infinite sets over the centuries.

Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi

Title page of Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi (The Art of Conjecturing), published posthumously in 1713 by his nephew Nicolaus I Bernoulli. The Ars Conjectandi is famous for Bernoulli's statement of a general rule for summing integral powers as well as for the first statement and proof of the Law of Large Numbers.

The Saga of Mathematics

A brief history of mathematics aimed at college students with little technical knowledge of mathematics.

Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Moments

A collection of short biographical sketches of people involved in the development of calculus, as well as brief descriptions of important events in that development.

Sherlock Holmes in Babylon

A collection of articles in the history of mathematics that appeared in journals of the Mathematical Association of America over the past 90 years.

How Tartaglia Solved the Cubic Equation

Tartaglia's method for solving cubics, which he eventually explained to Cardano.