Volume 20

1984

Issue 1

In 1733 the French biologist G.L.L. Buffon (1707-1788) proposed an interesting experiment for obtaining estimates of the constant $\pi$.

Issue 2

One of the mathematical results that one encounters early in life is that concerning the shortest path joining two points.

Issue 3

Most of us will have a tree in our homes over Christmas. To the mathematician, a tree is a special type of graph.