Article ID: CBB000021522

Gauss and the eight queens problem: A study in miniature of the propagation of historical error (1977)

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Description On the misattribution of the originator of this problem in recreational mathematics.


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Authors & Contributors
Décaillot, Anne-Marie
Vandendriessche, Eric
Wate-Mizuno, Mitsuko
Wilson, Robin J.
Sheynin, Oscar B.
Schmidt, Klaus-Jürgen
Journals
Historia Mathematica
Mitteilungen, Gauss- Gesellschaft E.V. Göttingen
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques
Publishers
W. W. Norton & Co.
Lewis Carroll Society of North America
Copernicus
Birkhäuser
Concepts
Recreational mathematics
Mathematics
Popularization
Non-euclidean geometry
Geometry
Spherical geometry
People
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Carroll, Lewis
König, Dénes
Ball, Walter William Rouse
Whitfield, William H.
Weber, Wilhelm Eduard
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Germany
Copenhagen (Denmark)
Hungary
Institutions
Association française pour l'avancement des sciences
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