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    The icosian game is a mathematical game invented in 1856 by Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton. It involves finding a Hamiltonian cycle on a dodecahedron...
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  • The icosian calculus is a non-commutative algebraic structure discovered by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1856. In modern terms, he...
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    and cycles are named after William Rowan Hamilton, who invented the icosian game, now also known as Hamilton's puzzle, which involves finding a Hamiltonian...
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    visits all of its vertices exactly once, can be found in a toy called icosian game. The regular dodecahedron is a polyhedron with 12 pentagonal faces, 30...
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    Eulerian path Five room puzzle Glossary of graph theory Hamiltonian path Icosian game Travelling salesman problem Water, gas, and electricity Euler, Leonhard...
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    intervals, in the Philosophical Magazine. Hamilton also introduced the icosian game or Hamilton's puzzle. It is based on the concept of a Hamiltonian path...
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    Hamilton and by the British mathematician Thomas Kirkman. Hamilton's icosian game was a recreational puzzle based on finding a Hamiltonian cycle. The general...
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    Seven Bridges of Königsberg, as well as William Rowan Hamilton and his Icosian game. Choreutic scales present symmetric solutions to these types of puzzles...
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  • in 1857, 1860, and 1864. Happy Families – popular card game, developed in 1851. Icosian game – a mathematical puzzle involving cycles on a dodecahedron...
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  • graph, is named after Herschel due to his pioneering work on Hamilton's Icosian game. The second son and fifth child of Sir John and Lady Margaret Herschel's...
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