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Volume 1, Issue 3 (June 1997)

• Shaka and the giraffes. A piece of historical fiction. Actually, fiction is putting it mildly.
• Biography of Isaac Newton. Many biographies paint Isaac as a great man and a perfect human. We turn all of these upside down.
• Recursive functions and the meaning of Zimaths.
• How I solved an Erdös problem. A true story this time. The version given above is the edited, gentle version. If you want the original hard-core (maths!) article, click here.
• Can I have a cup of coffee? An introduction to Pi mnemonics.
• Statistical Chocolate making III
• An interview with a successful mathematician.
• A famous maths textbook writer talks of her work.
• The hyperbola.
• A sonnet to mathematics
• Bistromathematics. The astounding new branch of maths described by Douglas Adams in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series.
  
  
• Zimaths Competition

Volume 1, Issue 2 (February 1997)

• My experiences with Paul Erdos: one mathematician reminesces about another.
• Close encounters of an illogical kind. A story based on Newcomb's paradox.
• A history of pi
• Chikwama and Chimbumu get out of jail: A sadistic story about odds and evens.
• An introduction to the ellipse
• Statistical Chocolate making II
• Maths in World War Three: An adventure with an unsolved problem. Well worth reading.
• The equations of power, money,...: A major breakthrough in sociomatheconomics
• More totally hopeless jokes
  
  
• The Winners of the 1996 Zimbabwe Maths Olympiad
• Zim kids attend South African Olympiad Training Camp
• Announcement: ZAAM The Zimbabwe Association of Applied Mathematicians
  
  
• Zimaths competition

Volume 1, Issue 1 (October 1996)

• Calling all tourists for a guided tour of Mathsland: about the major branches of mathematics.
• How number plates and ISBNs work
• Poor man's space travel: about the surprising growth of geometric progressions.
• Measuring the height of trees: for children of all ages.
• Statistical Chocolate making I: How statistics is used in industry.
• A gentle(?!) introduction to the cycloid
• Prime numbers
• Zimaths jokes
  
  
• Want to become an actuary? Read these comprehensive notes
• Starting on the Pro-maths campaign in Zimbabwe
• The best of the 1996 Zimbabwe Mathematics Olympiad
• The finalists for the 1996 ZMO
  
  
• Zimaths Competition

Links to our favourite mathematical sites

• Antreas Hatzipolakis has plenty of good stuff, including detailed info on pi-mnemonics and John Conway.
• Ivars Petersen's MathLand column has probably the best stuff on the web at the moment (something we hope to redress!)
• Devlin's angle. This is just to his June 1997 column - if you want to be able to see his other articles, you better go to the bottom of the main MAA page.
• MAA students page. Some interesting links for undergrads, though most of the stuff there is American-related.
• Escher is the best known artist with a mathematical connection - This site is very good, though it is slightly over-graphical.
• Tangents was one of the sites that inspired yours truly to put this page up. It hasn't been updated since 1996, but the articles are nice and meaty.
• Harvard Mathematics Club. Good links. As this is a Harvard site, I probably don't need to encourage you to go there!
• Kedlaya's Links List is the absolute last word on Maths Competitions.
• The Australian Maths Trust. Many consider Australia to have the best maths popularization program in the world. This is also an essential spot to hit if you're into national maths competitions.
• Math Mania. Some good stuff that kids can get their hands dirty with!