How to Amaze Your Friends

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How to Amaze Your Friends
Chris Budd
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• Most maths is
• Precise
• Careful
• Safe
• Logical

• Today we will look at maths and
• Murder
• Suicide
• Love
• Conquest

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The Minotaur
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Cretan Labyrinth
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Seed for the Cretan Labyrinth
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Ancient stone labyrinth
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Mappa Mundi
Maiden Castle
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The rise of the maze
Maze at Hatfield House
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Hampton Court Maze
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How to solve a maze and amaze your friends
Method one .. The hand on the hedge method
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Always keep turning left (or right)
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X
Add more hedges
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Add more hedges
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If a bird can walk on a hedge from the entrance
to the centre then you can solve the maze using
the hand on the hedge method
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To solve a more general maze we need to learn
about Networks
Bridges of Konigsberg
B
A
C
D
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Network
Even Node
Odd Node
Edge
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Maze Network
D
G
I
J
L
K
C
M
E
H
F
N
B
A
B
D
F
L
N
I
A
C
E
G
K
M
H
Centre
J
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Other Networks
Friends (social network)
Bob
Mary
Dave
Basil
Alice
Richard
Mary
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The Internet
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Using a network and some peanuts you can solve
any maze

• Start at the entrance and take any path
• If you come to a new node then leave a peanut
  and take any new path
• If you come to an old node (or the end of a
  blind alley) and you are on a new path then turn
  back along this path
• If you come to an old node and you are on an old
  path then take a new path (or another old path if
  no new path exists)
• Never go down a path more than twice

Good luck!