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The Mathematical Gazette Jul 2004

Volume 88 Number 512

Editor Gerry Leversha


Contents


Editorial
 
193

Articles
   
Fibonacci numbers and trigonometry Barry Lewis 194
The irrationality of : a simple proof Michael Eastham 205
Cyclotomic and double angle polynomials K. Robin McLean 208
Creating recreational Hamiltonian cycle problems Mark A. M. Lynch 215
Triangles in squares Liping Yuan and Ren Ding 219
A pseudohedron H. Martyn Cundy 226
Some unusual space-filling solids P. Gailiunas 230
On the generalised birthday problem R. J. McGregor and
G. P. Shannon
242
Trigonometric identities and functional equations Pl. Kannappan
249

Notes 88.31 to 88.51

   
Sum of the factorials of the digits of integers Shyam Sunder Gupta 258
SFD chains and factorion cycles Steve Abbott 261
Yet another proof of the infinitude of primes Neville Robbins 263
A short proof of Aubry's theorem Roy Barbara 263
The number of terminating zeroes of Nick Lord 264
They are almost all irrational! Hwang Chien-lih 266
Congruence relations for traces of matrix powers Shinji Tanimoto 266
Some observations on the method of arctangents for the calculation of  Hwang Chien-lih 270
A modification to the  limit Anthony C. Robin 279
When is  real? Stuart Simons 281
Two more maximum problems without calculus Finbarr Holland 284
Bounds for arithmetic mean of means Gian Mario Gianella 286
Remarks on the geometric mean--arithmetic mean inequality Grzegorz Rz±dkowski 290
On a unified method of solving some inequalities Isao Asiba and Masakazu Nihei 292
Extending a GCSE coursework task on consecutive sums Nick Lord 298
Feynman's triangle R. J. Cook and G. V. Wood 299
An alternative characterisation of the Brocard points Fukuzo Suzuki 302
Escribed and inscribed circles of Pythagorean triangles Nic Heideman 305
Is the lemniscate of Bernoulli one of Lissajous' figures? Charles Strickland-Constable 308
Breaking your washing line--how to minimise the risk Stuart Simons 311
How lawyers make a living Anthony C. Robin 313

Feedback

316

Correspondence
 
322

Problem Corner

Nick Lord

323

Student Problems

Tim Cross 

330

Reviews

333

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