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university and school of mathematics

• For all modules and similar information go to Student Web Pages
• School of Mathematics research groups and seminars
• University of Edinburgh and the School of Mathematics

misc maths

• Mathematics from the aztecs(!) (geometric curiosities)

amusements

• E-mails that I have got through having the same name as a famous basketball player.
• The amusements at http://www.andyfoulds.co.uk/main.html are entertaining - particularly the last one (Economists).
• Low-tech clock
• Find emarassing pictures of friends, enemies, etc
• The end of the internet

food and wine

My wine-tasting notes and articles on wine are at www.finewinediary.com Toby and Lucy's Guide to Edinburgh's Restaurants

poetry corner

    Extracted from "Under Which Lyre" by W.H. Auden (1946): 


        Thou shalt not do as the dean pleases,
        Thou shalt not write thy doctor's thesis
             On education,
        Thou shalt not worship projects nor
        Shalt thou or thine bow down before 
             Administration.
        
        Thou shalt not answer questionnaires
        Or quizzes upon World-Affairs,
             Nor with compliance
        Take any test. Thou shalt not sit
        With statisticians nor commit
             A social science
        
        Thou shalt not be on friendly terms
        With guys in advertising firms,
             Nor speak with such
        As read the Bible for its prose,
        Nor, above all, make love to those
             Who wash too much.
        
        Thou shalt not live within thy means
        Nor on plain water and raw greens.
             If thou must choose
        Between the chances, choose the odd;
        Read The New Yorker, trust in God;
             And take short views.

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Toby Bailey