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William Leybourn

British mathematician

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mathematical recreation

  • Square numbers shown formed from consecutive triangular numbers
    In number game: Pioneers and imitators

    In England, somewhat belatedly, William Leybourn, a mathematics teacher, textbook writer, and surveyor, in 1694, published his Pleasure with Profit: Consisting of Recreations of Divers Kinds, viz., Numerical, Geometrical, Mechanical, Statical, Astronomical, Horometrical, Cryptographical, Magnetical, Automatical, Chymical, and Historical. The title page further states that the purpose of the…

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