chapter 4

look outside the frame

A QUICK CHALLENGE

In the 19th century, the French mathematician Édouard Lucas posed a problem to some of his colleagues. The problem required no math skills and could be solved in less than a minute, and yet, none of his colleagues got it right.

Can you do better than the professional mathematicians? And just ...

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