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Greenwich Maths Time: Greenwich Maths Challenge 6
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Sunday, 29 May 2011. Greenwich Maths Challenge 6. Here is the sixth Greenwich Maths Challenge. As usual there will be a small prize for the first correct solution emailed to A.Mann@gre.ac.uk. By a Greenwich undergraduate. To win the prize you must justify your answer. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Useful links and blogs. British Society for the History of Mathematics. Finding Moonshine - Marcus du Sautoy's blog. Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. MacTutor History of Mathematics website.
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Greenwich Maths Time: Greenwich Christmas Quiz
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Friday, 18 March 2011. Congratulations to Ameli Gottstein who won this year's Greenwich Christmas Maths Challenge. This completes a clean sweep for Ameli who has won in each of her three years as a Greenwich undergraduate! Here are solutions to the questions. Answers: (a) Wren, (b) Kelvin, (c) Kepler, (d) Jia Xian, (e) Hamilton, (f) Bernoulli, (g) Archimedes, (h) Von Neumann, (i) Kolmogorov, (j) Kovalevskaya. For information on these mathematicians see the MacTutor website. Q5 Each integer from 1 to 10 1...
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Greenwich Maths Time: Two new books (and three old ones)
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011. Two new books (and three old ones). Biology is a big application area of mathematics at the moment, and here are two new books which I am looking forward to reading this summer:. Biology will be the great mathematical frontier of the twenty-first century.". Curiously enough, three of the most exciting maths books I have come across, and which have influenced and inspired my teaching, as students will have noticed, also relate to the mathematics of life. Useful links and blogs.
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Greenwich Maths Time: January 2010
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Saturday, 23 January 2010. Greenwich Maths Challenge 3 - COMING 7 FEBRUARY. The third Greenwich Maths Challenge will be posted here on Sunday 7 February. Approximately). We have postponed it from the previously announced date so that those preparing presentations for the Tomorrow's Mathematicians Today conference. On 6 February will not be distracted! And practice cracking Vigenere ciphers! A) ENRW - Wren. B) EIKLNV - Kelvin. C) EEKLPR - Kepler. D) AAIIJNX - Jia Xian. E) AHILMNOT - Hamilton. The trick he...
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Greenwich Maths Time: Big Noise
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011. 3* students helped =P. 29 May 2011 at 21:32. Yes: we had two students staffing the maths stands and others generally helping with the event. We wouldnt be able to take part in events like this without our wonderful, reliable, hard-working student ambassadors! 30 May 2011 at 07:27. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Useful links and blogs. British Society for the History of Mathematics. Finding Moonshine - Marcus du Sautoy's blog. Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
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Greenwich Maths Time: Greenwich Christmas Maths Challenge 2010
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Tuesday, 21 December 2010. Greenwich Christmas Maths Challenge 2010. On past experience, you may well not need to answer them all in order to win. Q1 Identify the mathematicians whose names are given below as anagrams. Accents and punctuation marks such as hyphens are omitted, and spellings are taken from the MacTutor History of Mathematics website http:/ www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/ history/. Q4 How many people is "Twice two pairs of twins"? Q6 The Ruritanian National Library contains more books than an...
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Greenwich Maths Time: February 2010
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Sunday, 7 February 2010. Greenwich Maths Challenge 3. This was posted at 9:30am on Sunday 7 February but because I had prepared it in advance it doesn't appear as the newest item in the blog. Here is a direct link to it. Labels: Greenwich maths challenge cryptography cipher. Saturday, 6 February 2010. Greenwich Maths Challenge 3. The following text has been encrypted with a Vigenere cipher. ( Simon Singh's Code Book CD-rom. Two pieces of information: 1) the missing number and 2) the Vigenere keyword.
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Greenwich Maths Time: April 2011
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011. Two new books (and three old ones). Biology is a big application area of mathematics at the moment, and here are two new books which I am looking forward to reading this summer:. Biology will be the great mathematical frontier of the twenty-first century.". Curiously enough, three of the most exciting maths books I have come across, and which have influenced and inspired my teaching, as students will have noticed, also relate to the mathematics of life. Saturday, 9 April 2011.
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Greenwich Maths Time: March 2011
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Friday, 18 March 2011. MathSoc's Pi Day Party. We also listened to a pi song - available here: http:/ bit.ly/49CFj. This was followed by some pi pie and pi cake made by Noel-Ann Bradshaw, Ameli Gottstein (3rd year - BSc Maths) and James Howe (3rd year - BSc Maths). Pictures by Michael Dullaway (3rd year - BSc Maths). Congratulations to Ameli Gottstein who won this year's Greenwich Christmas Maths Challenge. Here are solutions to the questions. Q3 For Spanish, Russian or Hebrew, it’s 1. For Germ...Answer:...
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Greenwich Maths Time: June 2010
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Thursday, 24 June 2010. Greenwich Maths Challenge 4 result. Congratulations to Mike Wakeling who provided the first correct answer to GMC4. This one attracted a lot of interest with many attempted solutions. Many people thought the problem was insoluble (as I did when I first saw it! This problem came from the late Martin Gardner, and I think it's a gem. If you haven't tried it yet, have a go at the problem. Before reading the solution below. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Useful links and blogs.
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