Sylvy's smörgåsbord of fun maths

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Here are some PUZZLES linked to my book chapter:

• Sylvy's Super-Puzzles
  • Solutions to Puzzle 1
  • Solutions to Puzzle 2
  • Solutions to Puzzle 3
  • Solutions to Puzzle 4 (new!)

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Sylvy's puzzle corner

• Cute Functions
• A tribute to Rubik's Cube
• Quick Pythagoras
• Lanbot's Logic Puzzles (Lancashire Science Festival)
• Sections through a cube
• Optimist, Pessimist
• Heptagon
• Pentagon
• All present and correct
• Long Division (solution)
• Factorial, Factorialer, Factorialist
• the puzzle forest (solution)
• vertex of parabola
• continuum chain in $\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{N})$ (solution)
• Sonic topology (solution part (i), solution part (ii))
• magic number
• coins, coins, and more coins

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miscellany of fun maths

• Reasoning: Knights and Knaves Puzzles
• Reasoning: Pirates and coins
• Analysis/Probability: Coloured balls in jar
• Analysis: A 'mean' question about the sequences of Cesàro means
• Analysis: A fun question about the convergence of series
• Analysis: Tricky Questions, Problem Sheet 1 about convergence and continuity
• Analysis: Accummulation

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outreach talks

• Puzzles: Hats, hats, and more hats, open day talk, November 2019.
• Puzzles: Hats, hats, and more hats, open day talk, October 2019.
• Puzzles: Hats, hats, and more hats, open day talk, June 2019.
• Puzzles: Hats, hats, and more hats, open day talk, November 2018.
• Classical Mechanics: The shape of space, talk for schools, 2019.
• Special Relativity: Space, Time, and Relativity, talk for schools, 2017.
• Puzzles: Hats, hats, and more hats, applicant day talk, 2017.
• Set Theory: Three Portraits of Infinity, talk for schools, 2016.
• Logic: Logic, Puzzles, and Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, talk for schools, 2014.
• Set Theory: Cantor's Infinities, talk for schools, 2011.

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