Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/science/14MATH.html



From the article:

"The Stomachion, concludes the historian, Dr. Reviel Netz, was far ahead of its time: a treatise on combinatorics, a field that did not come into its own until the rise of computer science. The goal of combinatorics is to determine how many ways a given problem can be solved."

Example: The Boutique challenge


For a problem similar to Archimedes' Stomachion problem, try the tangram puzzle

http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/chap4/4.4/

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