Bachet, CG (English)

...However, it was not until the 15th and 16th centuries that they were recognized as mathematical puzzles, and the world's first full-scale specialized book on mathematical puzzles was published in the early 17th century. This was "Merry and Fun Problems" (1612) by the French mathematician CGBachet, Sieur de Meziriac (1581-1638), which included 40 problems, including 105 subtraction and how to make magic squares. In Japan, the oldest is "Miscellaneous Collections of Lucky Calculations" (1698) by Tanaka Yuma (1651-1719), which covers 22 topics including Komachi calculations and metsuke characters. ...

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…しかし，数学パズルとしての独自の認識がもたれたのは15～16世紀のころで，世界最初の本格的な数学パズルの専門書は17世紀の初期に刊行されている。これは，フランスの数学者バシェC.G.Bachet,Sieur de Meziriac(1581‐1638)著の《愉快で楽しい問題》(1612)で，百五減算や魔方陣の作り方などを含めて40題を収録している。日本では，田中由真(1651‐1719)著の《雑集求笑算法》(1698)がもっとも古く，小町算や目付字などを含めて22の題材を扱っている。…

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