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Aug 12, 2014 dame kathleen ollerenshaw obituary dame kathleen ollerenshaw was an eminent mathematician who overcame childhood deafness, fell in love over a slide rule, and became an education adviser to. This order9 square, initially published by the late dame kathleen ollerenshaw in her article constructing pandiagonal magic squares of arbitrarily large size mathematics today, february 2006, was later analysed in 20 by ian cameron, adam rogers and peter d. Publication date 1998 topics magic squares, magische vierkanten publisher southendonsea, essex. Childrens books award winning texas author kathleen j. The dame kathleen ollerenshaw research fellowships are awarded through a twostage application process.
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Born in 1912, mathematician, amateur astronomer, politician, wife and mother ollerenshaw is. The wikipedia page gives some pointers to some of it alexander bogomolny has a web site with interesting and interactive treatments of many topics, including magic squares christian boyers web site is a rich source of information on multimagic squares. Dame kathleen, one of britains most eminent mathematicians, was a natural problem solver. Media in category kathleen ollerenshaw the following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total. In original olive green cloth gilt hard cover binding. Dames university fund aims to find the next alan turing.
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