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Problems to sharpen the young

Article by Hadley, John and Singmaster, David
  • Published in 1992
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An annotated translation of Propositiones ad acuendos juvenes, the oldest mathematical problem collection in Latin, attributed to Alcuin of York.

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journal
The Mathematical Gazette
number
475
pages
102--126
volume
76

BibTeX entry

@article{Hadley1992,
	title = {Problems to sharpen the young},
	author = {Hadley, John and Singmaster, David},
	url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/3620384},
	urldate = {2013-03-18},
	abstract = {An annotated translation of Propositiones ad acuendos juvenes, the oldest mathematical problem collection in Latin, attributed to Alcuin of York.},
	comment = {},
	journal = {The Mathematical Gazette},
	number = 475,
	pages = {102--126},
	volume = 76,
	year = 1992,
	collections = {Easily explained,Puzzles}
}