Table of Contents

1. Calculation and the chess master; 2. The cow in the classroom; 3. A passion for Pi; 4. Computing in the surreal realm; 5. Pythagorus plays ball; 6. Recycling topology; 7. Soap films and grid walks; 8. Mating games and lizards; 9. Random bits; 10. Spreading rumors; 11. Towards a fairer expansion draft; 12. Cracking the ball-control myth; 13. Math and a music education; 14. Sprouts; 15. Groups, graphs and Paul Erdos; 16. DNA adds up; 17. Computing with the EDSAC; 18. Waring experiments; 19. Old and new arithmetic; 20. Matchsticks in the summer.

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