What’s so great about Maths?
This isn’t a rhetorical question, but rather the title of the first programme in the new Radio 4 series ‘What’s So Great About…’, hosted by comedian and actor Lenny Henry, a self-confessed maths dunce. The Radio 4 programme, broadcast last weekend, features Lenny Henry talking to the likes of Carol Vorderman and Neurologist Brian Butterworth [...]
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This, along with a number of other apparently simple questions, features in a new book by Rob Eastaway. Radio 4′s today programme extracted six of these conundrums and put them into a quick online quiz – suitable for self-declared maths-whizzers of all ages.  The Radio 4 quiz explains the often surprising (or unsurprising, if you’re a [...]
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