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Problems from Another Time

Individual problems from throughout mathematics history, as well as articles that include problem sets for students.

Three equal circumferences with radii 6" are tangent to each other. Compute the area enclosed between them.
Determine the different values of x, when a certain function hits a minimum.
A square walled city of unknown dimensions has four gates, one at the center of each side.
A boy gives 11 coins of equal denomination to a man, and the man finds that their total value in yen is 4 less than his age.
There were two men, of whom the first had 3 small loaves of bread and the other, 2.
The authors recount the 'great tale' of Napier's and Burgi's parallel development of logarithms and urge you to use it in class.
There are two piles, one containing 9 gold coins, the other 11 silver coins.
Suppose a man had put out one cent at compound interest in 1620, what would have been the amount in 1824, allowing it to double once in 12 years?
A circle, a square and an equilateral triangle all have the same perimeter equal to 1 meter. Compare their areas.
How a translation of Peano's counterexample to the 'theorem' that a zero Wronskian implies linear dependence can help your differential equations students

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