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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Rhind Papyrus In 1700 B. C. an Egyptian scribe named A'h-mosè set down his "knowledge of existing things all," a document which is now the principal source of what we know of Egyptian mathematics ...

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 ...

“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 ...

PROF. FEET'S beautiful book is written for the Egyptologist and the mathematician, but not only for them. It is also for the man in the street- in such a street as runs through any university town; ...