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The art of mathematics |
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How many guards does an art gallery need? |
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Aspects of aspect ratios |
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Vickrey auctions |
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How to sing in tune |
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The Grand Jeté |
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Impossible beliefs |
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Xerography- Déjà vu all over again |
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Making pages look nice |
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The sound of silence |
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A most unusual cake recipe |
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Designing roller coasters |
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The beginning of the universe live on TV |
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Coping with stress |
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Art is critical |
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Culinary arts |
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Curved triangles |
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The days of the week |
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The case for procrastination |
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Diamonds are forever |
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21 |
How do you doodle? |
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Why are eggs egg-shaped? |
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The El Greco effect |
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Eureka |
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What the eye tells the brain |
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Why the flag of Nepal is unique |
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The Indian rope trick |
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An image that defeats the eye |
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It's Friday the thirteenth again |
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30 |
Strip friezes |
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31 |
The gherkin |
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32 |
Hedging your bets |
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Infinity at the theater |
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Shedding light on (and with) the golden ratio |
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Magic squares |
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Mondrian's golden rectangles |
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Monkey business with tiles |
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Pleasing sounds |
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New tiles from old |
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40 |
The nine-degree solution |
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Paper sizes and a book in the hand |
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Penny blacks and penny reds |
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Prime time cycles |
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If you can't measure it, why not? |
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The art of nebulae |
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Reverse auctions : going backward for Christmas |
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Ritual geometry for the gods |
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Prize rosettes |
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49 |
Getting a handle on water music : singing in the shower |
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Sizing up pictures |
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51 |
Triquetra |
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52 |
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow |
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Some perils of pictures |
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Drinking with Socrates |
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Strange formulae |
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Stylometry : mathematics rules the waves |
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57 |
Getting it together |
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When time has to reckon with space |
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How to watch TV |
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60 |
Curvaceous vase profiles |
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61 |
All the wallpapers in the universe |
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The art of war |
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Shattering wineglasses |
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Let the light shine in |
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Special triangles |
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Gnomons are golden |
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The upside-down world of Scott Kim |
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How many words did Shakespeare know? |
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The strange and wonderful law of first digits |
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Organ donor preferences |
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Elliptical whispering galleries |
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The tunnel of Eupalinos |
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A time-and-motion study of the Great Pyramid |
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Picking out tigers in the bushes |
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The art of the second law |
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On a clear day ... |
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Salvador Dalí and the fourth dimension |
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The sound of music |
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Chernoff's faces |
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The man from underground |
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Möbius and his band |
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The bells, the bells |
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Following the herd |
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Finger counting |
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The other Newton's hymn to the infinite |
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Charles Dickens was no average man; Florence Nightingale no average woman |
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Markov's literary chains |
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From free will to the Russian elections |
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Playing with supreme beings |
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The drawbacks of being a know-all |
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Watching paint crack |
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Pop music's magic equation |
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Random art |
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Jack the Dripper |
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The bridge of strings |
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Lacing problems |
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Where to stand to look at statues |
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The hotel infinity |
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The color of music |
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Shakespeare's monkeys : the new generation. |
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