W. W. Rouse Ball
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English mathematician and lawyer
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Mathematics
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Measure Theory
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Walter William Rouse Ball , known as W. W. Rouse Ball, was a British mathematician, lawyer, and fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1878 to 1905. He was also a keen amateur magician, and the founding president of the Cambridge Pentacle Club in 1919, one of the world's oldest magic societies.
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- Mathematical Recreations and Essays (405)
- A Short Account of the History of Mathematics . By Walter W. R. Ball. London and New York, Macmillan. 12°. $2.60 (1888) (225)
- An Essay on Newton's “Principia” (36)
- Mathematical Recreations and Essays. Fifth Edition. (1913) (15)
- Mersenne's Numbers (1912) (8)
- Magic Squares and Cubes. By W. S. Andrews and others. Chicago: The Open Publishing Company. (1)
- A history of the First Trinity Boat Club (1)
- Pythagoras (1915) (0)
- Construction for An Approximate Quadrature of the Circle (1918) (0)
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