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Volume 95; Issue 532

The Mathematical Gazette

Volume 95; Issue 532

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95.12 Accelerating the convergence of some alternating series

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Reviews. Stability and stabilization: an introduction, by William J. Terrell. pp. 457. £40.95 (Hardback). 2009. ISBN: 978-0-691-13444-4 (Princeton University Press).

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Diophantine Steiner triples

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Morphing Lord Brouncker's continued fraction for π into the product of Wallis

Osler, Thomas J.

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95.18 Normals to the Euler line

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Proof without words that 2 < e < 3

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The hook-length formula and generalised Catalan numbers

Griffiths, Martin, Lord, Nick

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95.20 Integral inequalities in probability theory

Beardon, Alan F.

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Feedback

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Reviews. Mathematics as problem solving (2nd edn), by Alexander Soifer. Pp. 106. £35.99. 2009. ISBN 978-0-387-74646-3 (Springer).

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Reviews. Mathematics as problem solving (2nd edn), by Alexander Soifer. Pp. 106. £35.99. 2009. ISBN 978-0-387-74646-3 (Springer).

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95.03 Geometric enumeration of the rationals between any two rational numbers

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Reviews. The mathematics of the heavens and the earth: The early history of trigonometry, by Glen van Brummelen. Pp. 329. £23.95 (hardback). 2009. ISBN 978-0-691-12973-0 (Princeton University Press).

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Reviews. The finite simple groups, by Robert A. Wilson. Pp. 298. £53.45 (Hardback). 2009. ISBN: 978-1-84800-987-5. (Springer).

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Reviews. Mathematics and music, by David Wright. Pp. 161. £29.50. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8218-4873-9 (American Mathematical Society).

Leversha, Gerry

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The confusion between inverse and reciprocal functions

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Reviews. A mathematical medley: fifty easy pieces on mathematics, by George G. Szpiro. Pp. 236. £26.95. 2010. ISBN: 978-0-8218-4928-6 (American Mathematical Society).

Griffiths, Martin

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Euler's parallel oblique-angled diameters

Osler, Thomas J.

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Reviews. The Monty Hall Problem – the remarkable story of math's most contentious brainteaser, by Jason Rosenhouse. Pp. 194. £15.99. 2009. ISBN 978-0-195-36789-8 (Oxford University Press).

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95.01 The rational distance problem

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Reviews. Statistics GCSE for AQA: (2nd edn.), by Jayne Kranat. Pp.330. £19.50. 2009. ISBN: 978-0-19-913430-4 (Oxford University Press).

Griffiths, Martin

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Anamorphoscopes another look at circle inverting mirrors

Sharp, John, Nickel, B. G., Hunt, J. L.

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The geometry of a stable game

Griffiths, Martin

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95.09 A bootstrapping proof of the AM-GM Inequality for three variables

Shirali, Shailesh A.

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Reviews. Mathematics in India, by Kim Plofker. Pp. 384. $ 39.50. 2009. ISBN: 978-0-691-12067-6 (Princeton University Press).

Coutinho, S. C.

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Reviews. Statistics: basic principles and applications (2nd edn), by William J. Adams, Irwin Kabus and Mitchell P. Preiss. Pp. 731. $23.99. 2009. ISBN: 978-1-4363-0180-0 (Xlibris).

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Reviews. Mathematical people: profiles and interviews (2nd edn.), edited by Donald J. Albers and Gerald L. Alexanderson. Pp. 385. $59-00 (hardback). 2008. ISBN: 978-1-56881-340-0 (A. K. Peters).

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Reviews. History of mathematics: highways and byways, by Amy Dahan-Dalmedico and Jeanne Peiffer. Pp. 330. £40.00 (hbk). 2010. ISBN: 978-0-888385-562-1 (Mathematical Association of America).

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95.05 Measuring the radius of the Earth

Colman, W. J. A.

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95.04 Make your own log table!

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95.08 Maximisation/minimisation without calculus

Hirschhorn, Michael D.

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Reviews. Essentials: KS3 mathematics coursebook, by Fiona Mapp. Pp. 288. £13.00. 2009. ISBN: 978-1-844192-39-7 (Lonsdale).

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Reviews. Duel at dawn: heroes, martyrs and the rise of modern mathematics, by Amir Alexander. Pp. 307. £21.95 2010. ISBN 978-0-674-04661-0 (Harvard University Press).

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Reviews. Professor Stewart's hoard of mathematical treasures, by Ian Stewart. Pp. 339. £12.99. 2009. ISBN: 978-1846682926 (Basic Books).

Leversha, Gerry

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The Morley tricorn a solid figure constructed from the diagram for Morley's theorem

Macfarlane, A. J.

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95.19 Spurt optimization

Groetsch, C. W.

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95.16 The generalisation of the triplicate ratio circle

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Reviews. Sacred mathematics, by Hidetoshi Fukagawa and Tony Rothman. Pp. 348. £26.95. 2008. ISBN 978-0691127453 (Princeton University Press). Traditional Japanese mathematics problems, by Hidetoshi Fukagawa and John Rigby. Pp. 191. $50. 2002. ISBN 981-042759X (SCT Publishing, Singapore).

Leversha, Gerry

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Superbrain: the first twenty-five years, by Diarmuid Early and MacHale. Des Pp. 230. £13.00. 2009. ISBN: 978-1906338015 (HighPerception).

Leversha, Gerry

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95.17 The golden ratio in conic sections

Ghosh, Chinmoy Kumar

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95.13 Some divisibility properties of Catalan numbers

Koshy, Thomas, Gao, Zhenguang

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Reviews. Decoding reality: the universe as quantum information, by Vlatko Vedral. Pp. 229. £16.99. 2010. ISBN 978-0199237692 (Oxford University Press).

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95.10 The fundamental theorem of calculus implies that of algebra

Mathew, Panakkal, Patyi, Imre

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95.06 The harmonic series revisited

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95.11 An interesting integral

Hirschhorn, Michael D.

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MAG volume 95 issue 532 Cover and Front matter

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MAG volume 95 issue 532 Cover and Front matter

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Reviews - Functional equations and inequalities with applications, by PI. Kannappan. Pp. 810, £117-00 (Hardback), 2009. ISBN: 978-0-387-89491-1. (Springer).

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Reviews - Those fascinating numbers, by Jean-Marie De Koninck. Pp. 426. £34.95. 2009. ISBN: 978-0-8218-4807-4 (American Mathematical Society).

Griffiths, Martin

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Rays in a right triangle

Brown, Peter G.

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95.14 Equiangular cyclic and equilateral circumscribed polygons

De Villiers, Michael

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Rays in a right triangle

Brown, Peter G.

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Student Problems

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95.14 Equiangular cyclic and equilateral circumscribed polygons

De Villiers, Michael

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Reviews - Riot at the calc. exam and other Mathematically Bent stories, by Colin Adams. Pp. 271. $32. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8218-4817-3 (American Mathematical Society).

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Student Problems

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Reviews - The mathematical colouring book: mathematics of colouring and the colourful life of its creators, by Alexander Soifer. Pp. 607. 42.95 euros. 2009. ISBN 978-0-387-74640-1 (Springer).

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