We were recently visited by two 'mathemagicians' associated with Marcus' Marvellous Mathemagicians - a group of current maths students at the University of Oxford championed by Marcus du Sautoy, presenter of numerous TV programmes and the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. Our mathemagicians (Dan Martin, an undergraduate in Physics at Hertford College, Oxford and Thomas Woolley, Research Associate at the Maths Institute, Oxford) spent an hour entertaining the students with their unique brand of humour and mathematical insights into winning games of all sorts. They convinced most of us that playing the lottery is a waste of time and money, and introduced us to an unsolved mathematics problem that could be worth at least one million US dollars to anyone who can solve it.
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