# All the Math That’s Fit to Print: Articles from The Manchester Guardian

### By Keith Devlin

Print ISBN: 978-0-88385-515-7
345 pp., Paperbound, 1994
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Series: Spectrum

Between 1983 and 1989 Keith Devlin, research mathematician, author and educator, wrote a semimonthly column on mathematics and computing in the English national daily newspaper, The Manchester Guardian. This book is a compilation of many of those articles. It is witty, entertaining, and easy-to-read.

The mathematical topics range from simple puzzles to deep results including open problems such as Faltings Theorem and the Riemann Conjecture. You will find articles on prime numbers, how to work out claims for travel expenses, calculating pi, computer simulation, patterns and palindromes, cryptology, and much more.

This book is meant for browsing by anyone who regularly reads a serious newspaper and has some interest in science and mathematics. Devlin tells us “from the mail I received I know that the readers of the column were a varied bunch. They ranged from students at schools in their early teens (occasionally even younger!) to retired people in their nineties (often the ones who best succeed in cracking the brain teasers I occasionally included in my articles); from prison inmates to executives in the computer industry; from truckers to schoolteachers; both men and women.”

Preface
Tribute
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990 Onwards
Index