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Professor Stewart's Mathematical Curiosities
Professor Ian Stewart has collected the most enlightening, entertaining and vexing 'curiosities' of maths over the years... Now, the private collection is displayed in his cabinet. There are some hidden gems of logic, geometry and probability - like how to extract a cherry from a cocktail glass (harder than you think).
As a taster for Prof. Stewarts curious curiosities, check out the videos below to see if you can decipher his Alien Encounter quandary.
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