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Puzzles

sixth form lecture, University of Liverpool (15/10/2009).

There is a long history of puzzles and games and their interaction with mathematics. The talk will include a selection of puzzles through the ages: Starting in the ancient world of Egypt and Greece, going through the Renaissance, Euler's work in recreational mathematics, the popular acceptance of mathematical puzzles in the late 19th C. to the modern age of Rubik's and Sudoku.