Volume 1, Issue 3 (June 1997)

• Shaka and the giraffes. A piece of historical fiction. Actually, fiction is putting it mildly.
• Biography of Isaac Newton. Many biographies paint Isaac as a great man and a perfect human. We turn all of these upside down.
• Recursive functions and the meaning of Zimaths.
• How I solved an Erdös problem. A true story this time. The version given above is the edited, gentle version. If you want the original hard-core (maths!) article, click here.
• Can I have a cup of coffee? An introduction to Pi mnemonics.
• Statistical Chocolate making III
• An interview with a successful mathematician.
• A famous maths textbook writer talks of her work.
• The hyperbola.
• A sonnet to mathematics
• Bistromathematics. The astounding new branch of maths described by Douglas Adams in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series.
  
  
• Zimaths Competition