Mathematics and logic

I think mathematics

Mathematics is my native medium of thought. The four years of my BSc degree in Mathematics, from 1966 to 1970, are the happiest years of my life, and the years in which I have felt most at home in the world.

I don’t distinguish between mathematics and logic. Either one can be regarded as a branch of the other.

This website contains two sorts of mathematics pages: academic and recreational.

Recreational

19‑ET and the Hebrew calendar – an account of a remarkable connection
A curious league table – a brief observation
A grain of sand in St Paul’s Cathedral – an essay
A scholarly critique of Stephen Leacock’s The Mathematical Problem of the Lost Chord – a tongue‐in‐cheek essay
Cricket in the shadows – a puzzle
Memory chips, log tables, Beethoven’s 3rd piano concerto, and Who wants to be a millionaire? – an interactive essay
The number ³¹⁄₈₈ in the context of tennis – an observation that is nearly trivial, but not quite
The Unexpected Deal – a short story illustrating how game theory can resolve the well known paradox of The Unexpected Exam