Recreational Problems in Medieval Mathematics - References

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Editor's note: For a discussion of Catholic, Jewish, and Islamic mathematical cultures in medieval Europe and the mathematics they produced, be sure to see Victor Katz's "The Mathematical Cultures of Medieval Europe," also published in Convergence in December of 2017.