Puzzles and Riddles: Measure Me This Says Niccolo Fontana
Since the thirteenth century, measuring puzzles have been challenging minds and offering a fun form of riddles. Niccolo Fontana (1500-1559) is credited with popularizing the puzzles. Fontana was an Italian mathematician and published one of the first dilemmas- which actually is know to be from the 1200’s. The puzzles involve …