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Problems from Another Time

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

Two wine merchants enter Paris, one of them with 64 casks of wine, the other with 20.
A powerful, unvanquished, excellent black snake, 80 angulas in length, enters into a hole at the rate of 7 1/2 angulas in 5/14 of a day, and in the course of a day its tail grows 11/4 of an angula.
A person has a circular yard that is 150 ft. in diameter, and wishes a walk of equal width made round it within the fence...
A series of circles have their centers on an equilateral hyperbola and pass through its center. Show that their envelope is a lemniscate.
The authors recount the 'great tale' of Napier's and Burgi's parallel development of logarithms and urge you to use it in class.
Given a wooden log of diameter 2 feet 5 inches from which a 7 inch thick board is to be cut, what is the maximum possible width of the board?
In Archimedes' Book of Lemmas (ca 250), he introduces a figure that, due to its shape, has historically been known as "the shoemaker's knife" or arbelos.
A man agreed to pay for 13 valuable houses worth $5000 each, what the last would amount to, reckoning 7 cents for the first, 4 times 7 cents for the second, and so on, increasing the price 4 times on each to the last.
Problems from a 15th century French manuscript, including one with negative solutions
Discussion of 15th century French manuscript, with translation of its problems, including one with negative solutions

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