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Creativity: Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association at the Annual Conference, April 1979

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

Alan Tammadge*
Affiliation:
Sevenoaks School, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 1HU

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1979

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