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Volume 73 - Issue 466 - December 1989

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73.51 An unusual derivation of and

73.52 Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient

73.53 A truncated geometric distribution

73.54 Prime product pi

73.55 To show that the altitudes of a triangle are concurrent

73.56 Regenerative powers of rabbits

73.57 Hexagons and cubes

73.58 A fractal paradox

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Ida Winifred Busbridge 1908–1988

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Mathematics, teachers and children, edited by D. Pimm. Pp 314. £6·95. 1988. ISBN 0-340-48756-9 (Hodder and Stoughton)

Mathematics as a service subject, edited by A. G. Howson, J. P. Kahane, P. Lauginie and E. de Turckheim. Pp 90. £20. 1988. ISBN 0-521-35395-5 (hardback), 0-521-35703-7 (paperback) (Cambridge University Press)

Mathematics teaching: the state of the art, edited by Paul Ernest. Pp 279. £10·95. 1989. ISBN 1-85000-461-7 (Falmer Press)

Test your child’s addition and subtraction, and Test your child’s multiplication and division, both by W. Gillham. Pp 32 each. £1·50 each. 1989. ISBN 0-340-50496-X, 50495-1 (Arnold)

Structured questions for GCSE mathematics: Book 1, by S. Hudson. Pp 92. £2·50. 1989. ISBN 0-340-50641-5 (Hodder & Stoughton)

Mathematics for secondary schools, by the N.M.P. Group. Pupils’ book 3 (Red Track). Pp 314. £6·50. 1988. ISBN 0-582-20725-8 (Longman)

Advanced level mathematics, by R. C. Solomon. Pp 583. £6·50. 1988. ISBN 0-905435-99-0 (D.P. Publications)

Statistics—a guide to the unknown (3rd edition), edited by J. M. Tanur et al. Pp 284. $16·95. 1989. ISBN 0-534-09492-9 (Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole)

An Olympiad down under—a report on the 29th International Mathematical Olympiad in Australia 1988, edited by W. P. Galvin, D. C. Hunt and P. J. O’Halloran. Pp 256. £11. 1988. ISBN 0-7316-5118-9 (Australian Mathematics Competition Publication, Canberra CAE)

The 1988 University of Cape Town mathematics competition, edited by J. H. Webb. Pp 90. £2. 1989. ISBN 0-7922-1192-3 (Department of Mathematics, U.C.T.)

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