THE INDEX

For articles from June 2006 onwards, see Wilf's column in BW2

Division Diversity : May 2006
Digital roots, decimal fractions and mathematical trickery: "A town nearby Divisibility is Prime Numbers. As a matter of fact, Prime Numbers is where Divisibility cannot be seen..."

Chain Reactions : April 2006
In which our fearless explorer escapes from the Pharaoh's Tomb, dashes off a bit of Diophantine Analysis and ends up bound up in chains...

Friction over Fractions : March 2006
In which Wilf unearths Ancient Egyptian mathematics and finds "methods that are very different from ours, but fascinating and (dare I say it?) useful even today..."

Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This : February 2006
This month Wilf considers what Pythogoras has to say about the peculiar shape of the mint humbug...

Waves On The Shore : January 2006
"I was thinking about square numbers and noted that there was a pattern to the last decimal digit of the series of squares..."