The PASS Maths "magazine" is great! Why did publishing stop with the May '98 issue?
Jon Revelos
It didn't, PASS Maths is still going strong. We publish once per term: January, May and September. A new editorial team will be publishing the January 1999 issue, see "Time to change" in the issue 7 Editorial.
Alexander Langley
Alexander is in his first year of a BSc degree course in Mathematics at Sheffield Hallam University. It is a four year course and he will have a work placement in the third year.
Mike Yates looks at the life and work of wartime code-breaker Alan Turing. Find out what types of numbers we can't count and why there are limits on what can be achieved with Turing machines.
I really want to know more about Goldbach conjecture, would you mind sending me the source code of your Goldbach conjecture calculator.
Andy Leung
Have a look at this issue's Mathematical mysteries: Goldbach revisited.
Andrew started his A-level studies at the City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College in September 1997. He is studying Maths, Further Maths, Physics, German and General Studies. His interests include karate and basketball.
Andrew Snape
Coincidences are familiar to us all but what are the so-called laws of chance? From coin tossing to freak weather events, Geoffrey Grimmett explains how probability is at the heart of it all.
A controversy is afoot. Some people claim that the Hebrew text of the Old Testament contains encoded predictions which are valid today. For example, the 1995 murder of the Israeli Prime Minister Mr Rabin is apparently foretold. Other people deny these claims. They agree that such messages may be found but say that similar coincidences will necessarily occur whenever a large book is studied in such a way. Feelings are running rather high.
Did the Romans understand the concept of "zero" and did they have a Roman numeral for zero? Did the Romans understand the concept of fractions and how did they represent them?
J. Reynolds
Sarah Hudson is doing a BSc degree in Maths with European Studies at the University of Sussex, where we spoke to her this summer as she came to the end of her first year. It's a 4 year course and she will spend the third year in Germany. She did her A-Levels (Maths, German and Combined Science) at Cheam High School, London.
