Mathematics and Cultures Across the Chessboard: The Wheat and Chessboard Problem

Alberto Bardi ()
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Alberto Bardi: Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Chapter 91 in Handbook of the Mathematics of the Arts and Sciences, 2021, pp 2421-2443 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter is an introduction to the wheat and chessboard problem and the interplay between chess and mathematics in the several authors and cultural contexts that have inherited, faced, and modified this problem, ranging from Antiquity to the Renaissance, considering a selection of Arabic, Persian, Greek, Latin, Italian, Romance, and Germanic sources.

Keywords: Chess; Chessboard; Geometric progression of 2; Mathematics; Wheat and chessboard problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57072-3_82

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