Récréations mathématiques
Récréations mathématiques is a late nineteenth-century French mathematics puzzle book, compiled by Édouard Lucas, Henry Delannoy, Charles Laisant and Émile Lemoine and published in Paris by Gauthier-Villars in 1883 for general readers interested in recreational problems. Its pictures are plain black-and-white line diagrams of graphs, nodes and calendar-style tables, offering a designer clean geometric linework, numbered circles and rigid grid structures to borrow for abstract patterns.
