Overview: Appeals to talented students from various levels.Provides insights into combinatorial theory, geometry and graph theory.Explores practical applications of combinatorial geometry.Engages a general audiA mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. A painter makes patterns with shapes and colours, a poet with words. A painter may embody an ‘idea,’ but the idea is usually commonplace and unimportant. In poetry, ideas count for a great deal more; but as Housman insisted, the import
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