Ok, so this is a pretty contrived little problem, but it shows the mindset of mathematicians and offers a neat, generally applicable answer.
Enjoy!
Ok, so this is a pretty contrived little problem, but it shows the mindset of mathematicians and offers a neat, generally applicable answer.
Enjoy!
Patrick Andrews has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University and an MSc in Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge.
A former Chartered Engineer and Chartered Mathematician, Patrick has worked in management consultancies and high-tech startups, and in academia as a postdoc in Applied Mathematics at Cambridge and a maths lecturer at De Montfort University.
Patrick is the father of three delightful (but not uniformly mathematical!) daughters.