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The Story of a Problem and its Solution*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Extract

When I began to consider how I could best fulfil my promise to read you a paper, my difficulty in selecting a subject arose, not from the dearth of matter, but from the wide range before me, as I was told I might select any mathematical subject I liked. The subject of mathematics as a whole I at once put aside, as I felt it would be impossible for me in a short paper to say anything new about it. For the same reason my favourite subject geometry was unsuitable, and as I was brought up on the Elements of Euclid, anything I might have to say about geometry would probably be considered old-fashioned and antiquated.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1930

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Footnotes

*

A paper read before the Portsmouth Mathematical Society, 8th April, 1930.

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* A paper read before the Portsmouth Mathematical Society, 8th April, 1930.