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About Eureka


Eureka is the journal of The Archimedeans (Cambridge University Mathematical Society).

Eureka was first published in 1939 and the most recent issue to be published was the 57th. It is a mix of articles and problems, with some mathematical humour for good measure. Although most of the articles are written by students, there are Eureka articles written by such luminaries as Paul Dirac, Paul Erdös, John Conway, Béla Bollobás, Ian Stewart and Douglas Hofstadter, to name but a few. The problems include the annual Archimedeans' Problems Drive, as well as other recreational problems. Two recent articles, Train Sets and Gess the Game from Eureka 53, have inspired articles by Ian Stewart in Scientific American.

If you are interested in writing for Eureka, guidelines can be found here.

For information about getting Eureka, please see here.

Recent News
13/10/08: Eureka Vol.59 will come out soon!

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Monday 1st December, 19:15 for pre-drink and 20:00 for meal:
Dome at Murray Edwards College (New Hall)
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Friday 21st November, 5:30 - 6:30 pm:
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Seminars for Undergraduates
GEOMETRY WITHOUT PICTURES
by Alex Shannon

During the 20th century, it became apparent that studying geometric spaces was best achieved by studying the algebras of functions on those spaces. Classically, all such algebras are commutative, but if we forget about the original space and try to apply the same ideas, we end up with a form of 'non-commutative' geometry [contd.]

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