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The Mathematical Gazette Mar 2005

Volume 89 Number 514

Editor Gerry Leversha


Contents


Editorial
 
1

Articles
   
Difference equations, determinants and the Secret Santa problem Tony Ward 2
Mathematical operators and ways of reasoning David Ginat 7
Partitions of primes and other sequences K. Robin McLean 15
The discovery of two new magic knight's tours Tim S. Roberts 22
The tiling conjecture for equiangular polygons K. Robin McLean 28

Matter for Debate
   
Readers respond 35

Notes 89.01 to 89.27

   
Perfect, and almost perfect, Pythagorean triangles Philip Maynard 36
Some obvious facts about the primes? Martin Griffiths 39
A result on the sequence of primes Panagiotis T. Krasopoulos 41
An extremum for  where  and  are constant  Roy Barbara 43
Proof without words Hung-Ping Tsao 46
Instant unitary matrices Ladislav Beran 46
An integral for the careless mathematician Martin Griffiths 47
The crossed ladder problem Manfred Ritter 50
The integral Ll. G. Chambers 52
Convergents to  via the Farey mean? Martin Griffiths 54
Relations between Euler's constant, Riemann's zeta function and Bernoulli numbers Hwang Chien-Lih 57
A moments of inertia proof of Euler's formula for Nick Lord 59
More on railway station arches
Norman Routledge 60
Back to the Euler line J. A. Scott 65
Yet more heuristics J. A. Scott 68
A polygon inequality John Melville 68
Flexible quadrilaterals A. F. Beardon 71
Converse of a property of right triangles Gyula Darvasi 72
Calculations on face and vertex regular polyhedra Udaya Chinthaka Jayatilake 76
A property of rectangles Michael O'Loughlin 81
Incircles of right-angled triangles Robert J. Clarke 82
Generalised Lucas circles of a cyclic quadrilateral Fukuzo Suzuki 86
The lemniscate of Bernoulli H. Martyn Cundy 89
A nine-point hyperbola J. A. Scott 93
On the tetrahedron inequality J. A. Scott 96
Construction of Pythagorean magic squares Emanuel Emanouilidis 99
What's the quickest route from  to ? Stuart Simons 101

Feedback

104

Problem Corner

Nick Lord

115

Student Problems

Tim Cross

120

Reviews

123

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