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Desert Island Theorems: my magnificent seven

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Tony Crilly
Tony Crilly*
Affiliation:
Middlesex Business School, The Burroughs, Hendon, London NW4 4BT. e-mail: t.crilly@mdx.ac.uk
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Choosing seven mathematical theorems or ideas to take to a desert island is more difficult than I first thought. In an earlier article (with Colin Fletcher) I discussed other people’s choices. Now comes the time to bite the bullet and make my own. I was reminded that the choices do not have to be ‘great’ or ‘state-of-the-art’ or involve any crystal ball gazing. They do not have to be among the hundreds of fundamental theorems that abound in mathematics all they are bound to be is personal.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 85 , Issue 502 , March 2001 , pp. 2 - 12
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2001

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