Mathematical Questions, with their Solutions, from the “Educational Times”

Abstract

JUST fifteen years ago we became aware, by the chance sight of a copy of the Educational Times, of the existence of a paper which gave up three or four pages monthly to the proposal and solution of mathematical questions. We at once sent to England, and a more careful examination, of the copy we received showed us that it was a publication of very high merit, at least as regarded this one department. Hitherto we had in the main confined our mathematical reading to the usual rut passed over by mathematical masters who have only to do with the teaching of ordinary boys; now we were induced to join the, at that date, small band of contributors who rallied round the mathematical editor and derived much pleasure and profit from the study of the many elegant solutions which were constantly being given. We have the number for October, 1862, before us, in which are Questions 1312 to 1320 proposed under six different names; we turn to the number for the current month, and the questions range from 5387 to 5419 from as many individual proposers, whose names are given. Here is evidence that a want has been met, and that there is considerable vitality in this direction; indeed, we may remark that this is the sole English periodical (since the demise of the Lady's and Gentleman's Diary) to which mathematicians can send high-class problems. University and college examinations swallow up a great deal of what is produced by residents at the universities, but these pages are open to all comers.

Mathematical Questions, with their Solutions, from the “Educational Times”.

Edited by W. J. C. Miller Vol. xxvii. from January to June, 1877. (London: C. F. Hodgson and Son.)