A millennium of mathematical puzzles

Speaker(s):   Professor Robin Wilson

Date/Time:  06/02/2008, 6pm

Venue:  Barnard's Inn Hall

In the 8th century Alcuin of York described the wolf, goat and cabbage problem - so did Lewis Carroll over 1000 years later.  This lecture looks at a wide variety of mathematical puzzles that entertained people of all ages over the intervening period.