| 25th April 2026 |
The Water Jug Puzzle - Dr Colin Wright
Chess and Graph Theory - Dr Stewart Haslinger
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| 28th March 2026 |
Tomography, Sudokus, the Beatles, and a Centuries-Old Problem in Number Theory - Dr Andreas Alpers
Be a Winner - Optimal Strategies in Games - Dr Rodi Herzberg
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| 28th February 2026 |
Ada, Charles and Jacob: The First Computer Program & The Power of Recursion - Dr Nicolas Garron
Untangling the Secrets of Knot Theory: An Introduction - Dr Richard Hadjii
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| 31st January 2026 |
A Brief Introduction to Computer Algebra - Dr Josh Davies
The Beauty of Chess - Dr Maksymilian J Roman
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| 29th November 2025 |
Tangled Christmas Lights and Other Knotted Problems - Dr Graham Reeve
This Talk Will Self-Destruct in Sixty Minutes - Dr Sam Tickle
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| 25th October 2025 |
Linear Programming - Dr David Lewis
Fitting Circles into Triangles - Dr Colin Wright
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| 26th April 2025 |
The Algebraic Pentagon - Dr Colin Wright
Life, Death & Cellular Automata - Dr Ellis Rintoul
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| 29th March 2025 |
Numbers Don't Lie - Or Do They? - Dr Andreas Alpers
Maths and Democracy - Prof Anna Pratoussevitch
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| 22nd February 2025 |
Continued Fractions - Dr Alena Haddley
Reflections on a Laser Beam - Prof Rodi Herzberg
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| 25th January 2025 |
Title TBC - Mr Samuel Canham
Title TBC - Dr Maksymilian J Roman
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| 30th November 2024 |
Simple Additive Number Theory - Dr David Lewis
A Fool's Guide to Fool-proofing Proofs - Dr Sam Tickle
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| 26th October 2024 |
White Dwarfs: Dark Matter Detectors in Space - Dr Juri Smirnov
Cryptography, Starting Where Others Finish - Dr Colin Wright
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| 27th April 2024 |
Places, Limits and Being Short-Sighted - Dr Colin Wright
Is Time Travel Possible? - Dr Susha Parameswaran
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| 23rd March 2024 |
Step into the Fourth Dimension - Ms Julia Munch
The Thin Line Between the Computationally Tractable and Intractable - Dr Andreas Alpers
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| 24th February 2024 |
How a Recreational Maths Problem From 1747 Became Important for Modern Computing - Prof Rodi Herzberg
Ready, SET, Go! - Prof Anna Pratoussevitch
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| 27th January 2024 |
Populations and Chaos - Dr Graham Reeve
Title TBC - Dr Colin Wright
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| 25th November 2023 |
You Have the Right to Remain Unsure - Dr Sam Tickle
Are You One in a Million? - Mr Jorge Romero
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| 28th October 2023 |
Cutting and Slicing in the Kitchen - Dr David Lewis
Time Travel Briefing #17 - Dr Colin Wright
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| 22nd April 2023 |
The Mutilated Chessboard - Dr Colin Wright
The (Quasi)crystal Clear World of Penrose Patterns - Dr Ellis Rintoul
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| 25th March 2023 |
How to Solve the Unsolvable - Dr Sam Tickle
Geometric Structures in Materials: What Does Nature Optimise? - Dr Andreas Alpers
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| 25th February 2023 |
Coxeter Number Friezes - Dr Robin McLean
Triangle Plots Here, There and Everywhere - Professor Anna Pratoussevitch
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| 28th January 2023 |
Who Would Be a Human Computer? - Dr Ian Thompson
Using Graphs When Modelling Real-Life Situations - Mrs Sue Harkness
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| 26th November 2022 |
What Really Matters - Dr Oliver Fischer
Ding-dong Merrily on High - Ringing the Changes the Scientific Way - Professor Helen Aspinall
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| 29th October 2022 |
Some Basics of the Finite Differencing Method Used in Weather Forecasting - Dr David Lewis
From Doodles to Dollars - Dr Colin Wright
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| 23rd April 2022 |
Maths in a Twist - Dr Colin Wright
Prepare For Trouble! And Make It Dobble! - The Plane Simple Maths Behind Dobble - Dr Ellis Rintoul
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| 26th March 2022 |
How Far The Moon? - Dr Colin Wright
Tomography, Sudokus, the Beatles, and a Centuries-Old Problem in Number Theory - Dr Andreas Alpers
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| 26th February 2022 |
Be a Winner - Optimal Strategies in Games - Professor Rodi Herzberg
Gini's Tree Wishes: Random Forests and Why They Are (Very) Useful - Dr Sam Tickle
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| 29th January 2022 |
Count Like An Egyptian - Dr Anna Pratoussevitch
Recurrence Relations and the Fibonacci Numbers - Alessio Kandiah & Postgraduate Outreach Group
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| 27th November 2021 |
Science is Cool - Sarah Annand
Investing in Your Future - Rhys Wells
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| 30th October 2021 |
Multiplication of Numbers in Different Bases to a High Degree of Precision - Dr David Lewis
An Elevator Pitch for Group Theory - Dr Colin Wright
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| 24th April 2021 |
Zoom Maths Club - Numbers and Recurrent Relations - Dr Oleg Karpenkov
Zoom Maths Club - Using Mathematics to Put Humans on Mars (or not) - Dr Ian Thompson
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| 27th March 2021 |
Zoom Maths Club - It *IS* Only Rocket Science! - Jorge Romero
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| 27th February 2021 |
Zoom Maths Club - Reflections on a Laser Beam - Professor Rodi Herzberg
Zoom Maths Club - Spot the Difference - Dr Graham Reeve
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| 30th January 2021 |
Zoom Maths Club - Of Dice and Gen(eration) of Random Numbers - Dr Sam Tickle
Zoom Maths Club - So Your Treatment Doesn't Work: How to Lie with Statistics - Dr Mary Fortune
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| 28th November 2020 |
Zoom Maths Club - Ding-dong Merrily on High - Ringing the Changes the Scientific Way - Professor Helen Aspinall
Zoom Maths Club - ChrisMATHS Dragon Quiz - Mr Chris Marchant & Maths Outreach Team
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| 31st October 2020 |
Zoom Maths Club - Areas of Polygons and Applications - Professor Peter Giblin OBE
Zoom Maths Club - The Weird and Wonderful World of the Infinite - Dr David Lewis
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| 26th September 2020 |
Zoom Maths Club - Am I Positive? - Mr Niall Thompson
Zoom Maths Club - Pythagorean Tuning and Equal Temperament - Mr Damian Haigh
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| 29th February 2020 |
Quantum Cryptography - Professor Kurt Langfeld
Extinction Recalculation - Predicting the Future using Branching Processes - Dr Sam Tickle
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| 25th January 2020 |
A Mathematician's Journey into the Marvellous World of Microscopic Swimmers & Crawlers - Professor Rachel Bearon
Brussels Sprouts - Dr Joel Haddley
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| 30th November 2019 |
Decision Trees - Sue Harkness
Counting Functions - Professor Peter Giblin OBE
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| 26th October 2019 |
Complex Numbers for Fun and Profit - Dr Colin Wright
Binary Arithmetic - Counting in Ones - Dr Robin McLean
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| 28th September 2019 |
Science is Cool - Sarah Annand
Fake Paradoxes - Dr Oleg Karpenkov
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| 27th April 2019 |
Water Measuring, Skew Billiards and Euclid's Algorithm - Dr David Lewis
Cryptography, Starting Where Others Finish - Dr Colin Wright
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| 30th March 2019 |
Fractals - Barry Grantham
Graph Theory - Dr Oleg Karpenkov
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| 23rd February 2019 |
Fibonacci Representations - Professor Peter Giblin OBE
Paradoxes in Statistics and Probability - Dr Alexei Piunovskiy
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| 26th January 2019 |
Playing with Positive Polynomials - Dr Robin McLean
Moebius: Beyond the Strip - Dr Joel Haddley
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| 24th November 2018 |
What's in a Number? - Dr Ian Thompson
Untangle the Tangle - Dr Anna Pratoussevitch
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| 27th October 2018 |
Taking Square Roots in a New Direction - Dr Colin Wright
Reading Between the Lies: Maths vs Fake News - Sam Tickle
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| 29th September 2018 |
Continued Fractions - Dr Alena Haddley
Counting with Catalan - Professor Peter Giblin OBE
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| 21st April 2018 |
Real Analysis via Puzzles - Dr Colin Wright
Linear Programming - Dr David Lewis
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| 24th March 2018 |
Mathematics of Infinity - Dr Alexei Piunovskiy
TBC - Dr Daniel Colquitt
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| 24th February 2018 |
Sequences - Dr Graham Reeve
Markov My Words - Sam Tickle
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| 27th January 2018 |
Integer Calculus - Dr Joel Haddley
Finite Arithmetic and Latin Squares - Dr Robin McLean
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| 25th November 2017 |
Ding-dong Merrily on High - Ringing the Changes the Scientific Way - Professor Helen Aspinall
Modelling Ferris Wheels - Sue Harkness
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| 28th October 2017 |
Tackling an Impossible Problem - Dr Colin Wright
Invariants - Dr Oleg Karpenkov
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| 30th September 2017 |
So Your Treatment Doesn't Work: How to Lie with Statistics - Dr Mary Fortune
Remainders, Consecutive Whole Numbers and Card Surprises - Professor Peter Giblin
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| 22nd April 2017 |
The Logistic Equation and Chaos - David Lewis
TBC - Colin Wright
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| 25th March 2017 |
Paradoxical Paradoxes - Daniel Colquitt
Continued Fractions - Barry Grantham
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| 25th February 2017 |
The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg and other Networks - Lonnie Readioff
Dungeon Master's Dice (and other probability problems) - Ian Thompson
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| 28th January 2017 |
Magic Rectangles - Joel Haddley
Needle in the World Wide Haystack - Anna Pratoussevitch
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| 26th November 2016 |
Modelling with Mathematics - Sue Harkness
Simple Additive Number Theory - David Lewis
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| 29th October 2016 |
Necessary vs Sufficient - Colin Wright
How Symmetrical is Your Cuboid? - Robin McLean
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| 1st October 2016 |
Cookies - Peter Giblin
A Hard Sell? - Sam Tickle
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| 30th April 2016 |
Problems on Minimal Distances - Oleg Karpenkov
Paradoxes in Statistics and Probability - Alexei Piunovskiy
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| 19th March 2016 |
TBC - Colin Wright
Coxeter Number Friezes - Robin McLean
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| 27th February 2016 |
The Quickest Path to an A* - MATH291 students
Playing with Permutations - MATH291 students
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| 30th January 2016 |
How to Make Perfect Toast and Become Infinitely Wealthy - Sam Tickle
Gray Coding - Joel Haddley
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| 28th November 2015 |
Conjugate Numbers, Irrational Numbers and Pell's Equation - Peter Giblin
TBC - Colin Wright
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| 31st October 2015 |
Who is the Greatest? Definition Problems in Mathematics and Elsewhere - Ian Thompson
Understanding functions through curve sketching - Mark Holland
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| 19th September 2015 |
TBC - David Lewis
Ready, SET, Go! - Anna Pratoussevitch
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| 25th April 2015 |
TBC - TBC
Strategies for Solitaire - David Bedford
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| 28th March 2015 |
The (Five) Most Beautiful Minds - Sam Tickle
TBC - Colin Wright
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| 28th February 2015 |
Iteration and Geometric Fractals - Alex Gheorghiu
Binary Arithmetic - Counting in Ones - Robin McLean
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| 31st January 2015 |
Maths's Greatest Unsolved Puzzles - Katie Steckles
TBC - Elliott Tjia
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| 29th November 2014 |
Completing Magic Squares - Peter Giblin
TBC - Colin Wright
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| 25th October 2014 |
Water Measuring, Skew Billiards and Euclid's Algorithm - David Lewis
Fun with Finite Sets - Joel Haddley
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| 20th September 2014 |
Coding Theory - Eloise Hattersley
Bayes' Theorem and Conditional Probability in the Real World - Mary Fortune
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| 26th April 2014 |
TBC - Colin Wright
TBC - Rachel Bearon
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| 29th March 2014 |
How to Make Natural Numbers - Steve Feller
It's About Time - Sam Tickle
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| 22nd February 2014 |
Modelling Decay - Lonnie Readioff
Building Trees and Crossing Rivers - Search in Artificial Intelligence - Katie Atkinson
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| 25th January 2014 |
From Coin Tossings to Combinations - Mark Holland
Modelling Ferris Wheels - Sue Harkness
|
| 30th November 2013 |
An Introduction to Vector Fields (or "How to Comb a Coconut") - Joel Haddley
Reasoning Under Uncertainty: An Introduction to Probability Theory - Ben Pace
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| 26th October 2013 |
Counting - Peter Giblin
Maths with a Twist - Colin Wright
|
| 21st September 2013 |
The Logistic Equation and Chaos - David Lewis
Logic: The Age of Reasoning - Iain Carson
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| 27th April 2013 |
Who Is Afraid Of Large Numbers? - Radu Tatar
Getting Lost in 2000 Dimensions - Colin Wright
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| 23rd March 2013 |
Recurrence Relations - Yyanis Johnson-Llambias
The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg and other Networks - Lonnie Readioff
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| 23rd February 2013 |
Exploration of Curves - Robert Jones and Miriam Stevens
How to Multiply - Elliott Tjia
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| 26th January 2013 |
A Plausible Approach Towards Statistical Process Control - Ken McKelvie
How to play Liar's Poker - David Lewis
|
| 24th November 2012 |
Reciprocal Prime Magic Squares - Joel Haddley
Sums of Squares - Peter Giblin
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| 27th October 2012 |
Communication of Mathematics - Stephanie Burton
Complexity Theory, P vs NP, Graph 3 Colouring, and the Million Dollar Prize - Colin Wright
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| 29th September 2012 |
To Infinity and Beyond - Adam Casey
Chessboards - Mary Fortune
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| 31st March 2012 |
'QI' Maths and Geometric Means - Ken McKelvie
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| 26th November 2011 |
Multiplication Tables - Peter Giblin
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| 29th January 2011 |
Duads, Synthemes and Totals - Ian Porteous
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| 27th November 2010 |
Exploration of digit patterns in outcomes of selected calculations - Ken McKelvie
Graphs, Trees and Brussels Sprouts - Peter Giblin
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| 27th March 2010 |
Stepping Stones to Streetwise Statistics - Ken McKelvie
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| 24th November 2007 |
Counting - Peter Giblin
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| 22nd September 2007 |
Interesting Paper-Folding Diversions - Mary Fortune and Jon Tims
Matrices with MAPLE - David Lewis
|
| 24th February 2007 |
The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg and other Networks - Lonnie Readioff
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| 27th January 2007 |
Evaluation of new FunMaths Roadshow material - Ken McKelvie
|
| 28th October 2006 |
Universal Cycles - Peter Giblin, with assistance from Chris Marchant
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| 29th April 2006 |
Matrices - Jon Tims
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| 26th November 2005 |
Expected Values - Ken McKelvie
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| 24th September 2005 |
Probability and The Law - Grahame Settle
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| 26th February 2005 |
Ringing the Changes - Martin Bright
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| 29th January 2005 |
Transforming Spaces, Transforming Shapes - Ken McKelvie
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| 30th October 2004 |
Astounding Wonders of Indian Mathematics - Satish Malik
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| 28th February 2004 |
Circular Motion and the Cardioid - Ian Porteous
|
| 31st January 2004 |
Stages in Problem Solving - What to do when stuck! - It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it... - Ken McKelvie
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| 29th November 2003 |
Challenging Problems from Moscow III - Vladimir Zakalyukin
Some Mathematical Puzzles - David Lewis
|
| 1st November 2003 |
The Weird and Wonderful World of the Infinite - David Lewis
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| 26th April 2003 |
Latin Squares and Groups - Shaine Bushell
Perennial Primes - Asoke Nandi
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| 29th March 2003 |
Codes - Chris Sawer
An Introduction to Curve Sketching - Mark Holland
|
| 22nd February 2003 |
Magic Squares of Order 4 - Ian Porteous
Arithmetic and Geometric Progressions - Satish Malik
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| 25th January 2003 |
The Modulus Function and some applications - David Lewis
Seeing is Believing - Ken McKelvie
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| 23rd November 2002 |
Dividing Up Triangles - Peter Giblin
|
| 26th October 2002 |
Challenging Problems from Moscow II - Vladimir Zakalyukin
Advice on Hanging Pictures - Fred Bloore
|
| 27th April 2002 |
Towers of Hanoi - Özgür and Alana Selsil
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| 23rd March 2002 |
Sequences and Series - Satish Malik
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| 23rd February 2002 |
Sums of Distances - Peter Giblin
Traditional Japanese Geometry - John Rigby
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| 26th January 2002 |
Complex Numbers and Quadratic & Cubic Forms - Ian Porteous
Years, Calendars and Continued Fractions - Chris Sawer
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| 15th December 2001 |
From Maxima & Minima to Surface Shape - Peter Giblin
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| 24th November 2001 |
Challenging Problems from Moscow I - Vladimir Zakalyukin
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| 27th October 2001 |
Snowflakes and Other Fractals - Peter Giblin
|
| 29th September 2001 |
Knot Theory - Toby Hall
|
| 28th April 2001 |
Surreal Numbers - Mark Hollingworth
Constructions with Circles - Peter Giblin
|
| 24th March 2001 |
The Circle Method - Mark Hollingworth
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| 10th March 2001 |
Quadrature - Mark Hollingworth
Rollers - Mark Hollingworth
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| 24th February 2001 |
Circles Through Two or Three Points - Peter Giblin
Getting Close to the Square Root of Two - Victor Flynn
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| 27th January 2001 |
Iteration and Spider Diagrams - Chris Sawer
Lines and Circles - Ian Porteous
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| 25th November 2000 |
Tangent Circles - Peter Giblin
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| 28th October 2000 |
Cutting a Region in half; and some Trigonometric Equations - Sasha Movchan and Peter Giblin
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| 29th June 2000 |
Tangles, Fractions and Factors - Mark Hollingworth
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