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Creativity: Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association at the Annual Conference, April 1979

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

Alan Tammadge
Alan Tammadge*
Affiliation:
Sevenoaks School, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 1HU
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 63 , Issue 425 , October 1979 , pp. 145 - 163
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1979

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Further reading

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