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Pop maths postscript : when is a vacation a holiday ?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Tim Rowland*
Affiliation:
Homerton College, Cambridge CB2 2PH

Extract

July 1990. The Pop Maths Roadshow comes to town. “Chaos” Rules OK.

28 July. Receive invitation to post-Pop Maths party in September. One of the conditions of eligibility to attend is to tackle four problems listed on the invitation. Surely only mathematicians do this sort of thing? I glance at the problems. Two of them I know how to tackle, and a third I haven’t a clue how to begin; but it is the first problem that intrigues me most.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1992

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