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The Mathematical Gazette Mar 1999

Volume 83 Number 496


Editor Steve Abbott

Contents

Articles  
Principle of the extreme element KIRIL BANKOV
Stanislaw Ulam (1909 - 1984) GRAHAM HOARE
S?P numbers A. F. BEARDON
There are only three S?P numbers! K. ROBIN McLEAN
Partitions into square-pairs JOHNSTON ANDERSON and ANDY WALKER
Remarks on Pell's equation and square root algorithms ADAM McBRIDE
A simple approach to the factorial function - the next step DAVID FOWLER
Playing Diffy with real sequences K. ROBIN McLEAN
On sweeping out an area MARK J. COOKER
The Compleat Ceva G. C. SHEPHARD

Matters for debate
 
Does our school curriculum teach students how to do mathematics? ROGER PORKESS
Some more decimal points JOHN BACKHOUSE

Notes
 
Logarithms FRANCIS G. MILES
Thermodynamic proofs and their history MICHAEL A. B. DEAKIN
A teaching note on Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm RONALD BOSKOVIC and PAUL BELCHER
A generalisation of a curious sum THOMAS KOSHY
Magic rectangles MARIAN TRENKLER
A further generalisation of the Fermat-Torricelli point MICHAEL DE VILLIERS
A geometric view of magic squares DANIEL B. SHAPIRO
Deriving the nth Catalan number ANDREW LOBB
Bounds for (kn)! and the factorial polynomial MUNIR MAHMOOD, PHILLIP EDWARDS and SARJINDER SINGH
Differences with a difference GRAHAM HOARE
Euclid's diagram for Pythagoras' theorem ROBERT J. CLARKE
The scalar product from a different direction R. KIRBY
An unusual iteration example NICK LORD
A vacuous volume formula NICK LORD
Evaluation of a definite integral FRANK CHORLTON
Some geometrical properties of the catenary FRANK CHORLTON
Some extensions and refinements of Minc-Sathre inequality KUANG JICHANG
Slower and longer when coming down! P. SHIU
A comment on Note 81.46 CYRIL F. PARRY

Correspondence

 

Problem corner

G. T. Q. HOARE

Students problems

TIM CROSS

Other Journals

ANNE C. BAKER

Book Reviews

 

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