The Genoese Lottery
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Euler and the Genoese Lottery
Volume I.7 of Leonard Euler’s Opera Omnia is probably most often consulted for a handful of papers on famous mathematical problems: the Bridges of Königsberg, the Knight’s Tour, Magic Squares, the problem of Derangements and the Josephus Problem. These gems of recreational mathematics are to be found nearly buried among the more prevalent subject matter of the volume: some two dozen entries con...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Statistical Science
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0883-4237
DOI: 10.1214/ss/1177011819